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Oct 31, 2023 · Urban sociology is a site where the epistemological and political consequences of the larger discipline’s relationship to understood-to-be external nature are sharply visible. This is evident in the segregation of “social” from “environmental” questions and larger bifurcation of city/nature and urban/rural issues.
20.3 The Environment and Society The subfield of environmental sociology studies how humans interact with their environments. This field is closely related to human ecology, which focuses on the relationship between people and their built and natural environment. As extreme weather patterns and policy battles over climate change dominate the ...
the 20th century environmental sociology became a subfield: a specialized sociology of environmental issues rather than a truly envi-ronmental (or environmentalized) sociology. Perhaps nowhere have these dynamics been more apparent, and problematic, than in urban sociology and in this subfield’s treatment of environmental issues.
Jul 23, 2024 · This special issue aims to display the breadth and depth of qualitative studies of the environment. In terms of breadth, the work here demonstrates that sociology should have a capacious definition of the environment and treat it with the same scrutiny as other folk concepts. Doing so—with the caveat that individual studies need to carefully operationalize ‘the environment’—reveals how ...
- Max Besbris
- besbris@wisc.edu
- Introduction to Population, Urbanization, and The Environment
- Demography and Population
- Urbanization
- The Environment and Society
- Section Summary
- Further Research
- References
- Image Attributions
- Solutions to Section Quiz
The Alberta tar sands (or bituminous sands) in the northeast of the province have been recognized as an important petroleum resource since the 19th century when the first extensive surveys were made. They cover about 140,000 square kilometres of boreal forest and muskeg, largely in the Athabasca River basin. The petroleum is in the form of crude bi...
We recently hit a population milestone of 7 billion humans on Earth’s surface. It took approximately 12 years to grow from 6 billion to 7 billion people (United Nations Population Fund 2011). In short, the planet is filling up. It is estimated we will we go from 7 billion to 8 billion by 2025. How will that population be distributed? Where is popul...
Urbanization is the study of the social, political, and economic relationships in cities, and someone specializing in urban sociologywould study those relationships. In some ways, cities can be microcosms of universal human behaviour, while in others they provide a unique environment that yields their own brand of human behaviour. There is no stric...
The subfield of environmental sociology studies how humans interact with their environments. This field is closely related to human ecology, which focuses on the relationship between people and their built and natural environment. This is an area that is garnering more attention as extreme weather patterns and policy battles over climate change dom...
20.1. Demography and Population Scholars understand demography through various analyses. Malthusian, zero population growth, cornucopian theory, and demographic transition theories all help sociologists study demography. Earth’s human population is growing quickly, especially in peripheral countries. Factors that impact population include birth rat...
20.1. Demography and Population To learn more about population concerns, from the new-era ZPG advocates to the United Nations reports, check out these links: http://openstaxcollege.org/l/population_connection and http://openstaxcollege.org/l/un-population 20.2. Urbanization Interested in learning more about the latest research in the field of human...
20. Introduction to Population, Urbanization, and the Environment De Souza, Mike. 2012. “Majority of oil sands ownership and profits are foreign, says analysis.” Financial Post. May 10. Retrieved September 25, 2014, from http://business.financialpost.com/2012/05/10/majority-of-oil-sands-ownership-and-profits-are-foreign-says-analysis/?utm_source&ut...
Figure 20.1. Tar sands, Alberta by Howl Arts Collective (https://www.flickr.com/photos/howlcollective/6544064931/in/photostream/) used under CC BY 2.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) Figure 20.8. Downtown Vancouver sunset by MagnusL3D (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Downtown_Vancouver_Sunset.jpg) used under CC BY SA 3...
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- William Little
- 2016
Sep 24, 2010 · Then, in the body of the article, the author provides an overview of the struggle in environmental sociology to find connections between urbanization and the natural environment. The main focus is on how environmental sociologists have theorized the environmental impact of urbanization, although other relevant topics (e.g., environmental justice in the city) are briefly addressed.
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Feb 20, 2021 · 20.3: Urbanization. Urbanization is the study of the social, political, and economic relationships in cities, and someone specializing in urban sociology studies those relationships. In some ways, cities can be microcosms of universal human behavior, while in others they provide a unique environment that yields its own brand of human behavior.
