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Environmental sociology is the study of interactions between societies and their natural environment.The field emphasizes the social factors that influence environmental resource management and cause environmental issues, the processes by which these environmental problems are socially constructed and define as social issues, and societal responses to these problems.
Jul 8, 2015 · The practice of environmental sociology, more specifically, is an enterprise that requires more than passing knowledge of other sciences such as ecology, biology, physics, chemistry or engineering. The particularities of this requirement should not be narrowly codified. They will vary across people and topics.
- Stewart Lockie
- 2015
Aug 1, 2014 · A major part of US environmental sociology, well represented in King and McCarthy’s (2009) environmental sociology reader, seems to be politically committed, and certain strands (e.g. environmental justice scholars) are strongly engaged with grassroots-level initiatives, non-elite (minority, native American) groups, non-Washington DC based environmental NGOs, and local communities and ...
- Rolf Lidskog, Arthur Pj Mol, Peter Oosterveer
- 2015
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There have been many contributors to the field of environmental sociology since the discipline emerged. A few notable environmental sociologists include: Professor Kari Marie Norgaardis currently an associate professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at the Univeristy of Oregon. Over the last fifteen years, she has taught in the fields of en...
Environmental sociology is known as comprising of four major areas of research. First,environmental sociologists study the societal causes of environmental problems. Scholars have developed many theoretical frameworks to describe how social factors like demographical, political, cultural and economic factors generate environmental problems. Many em...
The 21stcentury brings with it a host of environmental issues. Global climate change is the most pressing issue faced by human society. Environmental sociologists research the anthropogenic factors of climate change such as political and economic causes. They also investigate sociological issues caused by climate change. For example, unusual weathe...
Human Exemptionalism Paradigm (HEP): The HEP was based on the assumption that modern society was not linked to the physical environment since human beings are uniquely superior to every other race....New Ecological Paradigm (NEP): The NEP arose in opposition to the HEP. The NEP called for a healthy balance between human activities and the needs of the ecosystems they exploited. The paradigm hig...Treadmill of Production: This conflict theory was developed by Allan Schnaiberg in 1980. It proposed that capitalism drives economic growth and that continued consumption is an imperative of the pr...Mar 19, 2015 · Equally notable attempts are evident to bridge environmental sociology with research in health (Brown Citation 2007), markets (Hutchinson, Mellor, and Olsen Citation 2002), globalization (Sassen Citation 2012), and so on. In the search for theoretical and methodological tools sensitive to the (bio)physical world, card-carrying environmental sociologists have many fellow travellers.
- Stewart Lockie
- 2015
Introduction. Having emerged in the 1970s as public awareness of and concern for environmental problems increased, environmental sociology’s main goal is to understand the interconnections between human societies and the natural (or biophysical) environment. Environmental sociology has been described as comprising four major areas of research.
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Mar 10, 2015 · Dunlap, Riley. 2010. The maturation and diversification of environmental sociology: From constructivism and realism to agnosticism and pragmatism. In The international handbook of environmental sociology. 2d ed. Edited by Michael R. Redclift and Graham Woodgate, 15–32. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. DOI: 10.4337/9781849805520.
