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In the years that followed, he moved away from [[social theory]] and started engaging with issues about environmental [[sustainability]] from the viewpoint of [[science and technology studies]]. This move was inspired by the insight of [[Karl Marx]] that technology reveals the active transformation of nature, performed by humans and their social forms of organization.<ref>[http://readingcapitalsydney.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/chapter-15-machinery-and-large-scale-industry-sections-1-4-2/#_ftnref ‘Technology reveals the active relation of man to nature, the direct process of the production of his life, and thereby it also lays bare the process of the production of the social relations of his life and of the mental conceptions that flow from these relations.’] Footnote 4 in Karl Marx, [[Das Kapital|Capital: A Critique of Political Economy]], Volume 1, trans. Ben Fowkes, Penguin Classics (London, New York: Penguin Books, 1990), p. 493.</ref>
A partial return to social theory was prompted by the co-operation with [[Nico Stehr]] with whom Grundmann worked since the late 1990s. Their common work on [[Werner Sombart]] led to a re-evaluation of the legacy of this pioneering German sociologist, examining in particular his low salience in the postwar period.<ref>‘Why is Werner Sombart not part of the core of classical sociologists? From fame to (near) oblivion’'' Journal of Classical Sociolog''y 1 (2): 257–287</ref> Reviewer Lutz Kaelber from the [[University of Vermont]] referred to Stehrs and Grundmanns edition of Werner Sombart's ''Economic Life in the Modern Age'' as a ''valuable and accessible addition to the Anglo-American literature on Werner Sombart.''<ref>{{Cite web|title = Book Review: Sombart, Economic Life in the Modern Age|url = http://www.cjsonline.ca/reviews/sombart.html|website = www.cjsonline.ca|access-date = 2015-05-09|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://archive.
=== Sustainability and large technical systems ===
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