Environmental Sociology: A Students Guide
Environmental sociology is the study of relationships between societies and their natural environment from a sociological perspective. Environmental sociologists study the social structures and processes that cause environmental change, the societal impacts of environmental change, as well as efforts to solve environmental problems. Students wishing to pursue careers in environmental sociology find jobs in academia, state agencies, local public lands management agencies, and environmental organizations to name a few. There is a growing awareness that in order to understand and solve many of the environmental problems facing the planet we need to examine the underlying social, psychological, political and economic forces driving human behavior. In this book we examine the rapidly growing field of Environmental Sociology, which brings a sociological perspective and sociological methods of analysis to this broadly cross-disciplinary topic.
Some of the important questions that Environment Sociology attempts to answer are; How do natural systems shape social systems?
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How do social systems reshape natural systems?
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Whom do these two types of systems conflict?
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Why are some members of a society more disadvantaged than others?
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Is “green” capitalism possible?
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Does population growth lead to environmental degradation?
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Can technical fixes solve environmental problems? Has the environmental movement been successful?
Through exploration of these questions, Environmental Sociology: A Student's guide introduces students to the theoretical and empirical study of the dynamic interaction of human society and the natural environment. Students will be able to critically examine the social origins and ecological impacts of the production, consumption and distribution of goods, services and ideas domestically and internationally. The field of Environmental Sociology will challenge a wide range of environmental beliefs. The critical association between societal well-being and environmental quality is increasingly becoming a topic for debate in our society. Environmental Sociology as a sub-discipline within Sociology focuses on the social dimensions of the surrounding natural and human-made environments. For instance, Environmental Sociologists seek to understand environmentalism as a social movement and explores things like Not in My Back Yard (NIMBY), the ways in which societal members perceive of environmental problems depending on class structures, social stratification and the origins of human-induced environmental decline. The inequitable social distribution of environmental hazards (i.e. where toxic waste sites are located in the community) is another central area of Environmental Sociological research, examining the processes by which socially disadvantaged populations come to experience greater exposures to myriad environmental hazards including natural disasters.
Environmental Sociology: A Student's Guide
Environmental Sociology: A Student's Guide, allows new students to the field of Environmental Sociology to gain an understanding of the research and teaching in the field of Environmental Sociology and provides lists of the major texts in the field.
Environmental Sociology: A Student's Guide will enable new student to the field to understand how the major theoretical paradigms in environmental sociology are used to analyse environmental issues.
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