Environmental Problems
The term "global warming" has been changed to what in order to better capture scientific understandings.
What is climate change?
Environmental Sociology focuses on this realm of nature?
What is nature: culture-society-nature interactions (or characteristics of ecosystems, environments, and its elements)?
This sub-field of general Sociology is routinely regarded as the precursor to the field of Environmental Sociology.
What is rural Sociology?
This theory, which developed outside of sociology, suggests that to address the environmental crises we must decenter humans in our decision making processes.
What is deep ecology (New Ecological Paradigm) is acceptable)?
This theory tells us that processes of modernity encourage risky behavior, as decision making relies more and more on uncertain sciences and the processes of large bureaucratic institutions.
What is Risk Society?
Gould and Lewis argue that this fundamental Millsian concept is the best starting point for understanding socioenvironmental poly-crises.
What is the Sociological Imagination?
The reform environmental movement is believed to have been spurred into action by, among other things, the publication of this foundational book based on pesticide use and effects.
What is Rachel Carson's Silent Spring?
Environmental Sociology diverges from general Sociology by disputing this assumption.
What is social life is only influenced by socio-cultural environment.
Environmental sociologists Riley Dunlap and William Catton suggest that, historically, sociology has been guided by this paradigm, which believes human social systems are free from environmental constraints.
What is the Human Exemptionalist Paradigm?
The micro-level concept of "naturework" in Environmental Sociology comes from this theoretical perspective.
What is symbolic interactionism?
The pragmatist researcher engages in this activity to best study and understand environmental problems?
What is the collection of data (realism)?
Unlike other fields in the environmental social sciences, this discipline started from the work of social activists and is often traced back to protests in Warren County about the dumping of PCB fluids in the local landfill.
What is Environmental Justice?
Pellow & Brehm use these 3 common Sociological concepts to argue that the nature is a terrain of power.
What are power, politics, and inequality?
The Treadmill of Production theory argues that increased outputs is required to satisfy three stakeholders/functions.
What are wages/consumer demand, taxes, and shareholders?
Richard York argues that the foundation of Environmental Sociology must be largely based on either the "establishment of science" or the "logic of science."
What is the logic of science?
This is predominately the root cause of environmental problems according to critical theories in Environmental Sociology?
What are resource use, power, or inequality?
The field of Environmental Sociology focuses on these 3 biophysical environments.
What is the natural, modified, and built?
According to Foster, the logic of capital accumulation creates a rift between society and nature that leads to the following phenomenon.
What is the "revenge of nature?”
This hypothesis suggests that societies which are not able to provide basic needs, such as job security and adequate nutrition, will not be concerned with protection of the environment
What is the environmental kuznets curve?
The geological epoch in which human society has developed.
What is the Holocene?
An agnostic researcher uses this tactic to understand and explain environmental problems?
What is claims-making (constructivism)?
A focus on additions and withdrawals leads to this approach in Environmental Sociology.
What is the "supply depot-waste repository" approach?
According to Scott and Johnson (2016), Environmental Sociology has gained acceptance within mainstream Sociology and its top-tiered journals by focusing on these core Sociological concepts.
What are stratification and inequality?
This theory of environment-society-business relations argues that as concern with the environment deepens society will rationalize around ecologically beneficial principles and consumption.
What is the ecological modernization theory?
This is the fastest emerging subfield within Environmental Sociology according to your professor.
What is Green Criminology or Environmental Criminology?