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What is environmental sociology
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In this paper, the authors argue that environmental sociology requires us to rethink the foundational principles of sociology and indeed the very concept of "social sciences" and that such a rethinking is critical to the ongoing relevance of the social sciences in an era of global environmental change.Abstract:
[Extract] Environmental sociologists have a long-held ambition to transform sociology – to outgrow our sub-disciplinary niche and redefine the mainstream. Many of us firmly believe that environmental sociology requires us to rethink the foundational principles of sociology and indeed the very concept of 'social sciences'. We believe such a rethinking is critical to the ongoing relevance of the social sciences in an era of global environmental change. But have we ever settled on what environmental sociology actually is?read more
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The Capitalocene, Part I: on the nature and origins of our ecological crisis
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Climate change and society : sociological perspectives
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Green infrastructure and planning policy: a critical assessment
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Researching Visual Environmental Communication
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Individual environmental concern in the world polity: A multilevel analysis.
TL;DR: Results of multilevel analyses of individual-level environmental concern in 37 nations indicate that both forms of world polity integration increase the likelihood ofindividual- level environmental concern, net of other national-level factors and individual- level characteristics.
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The Sociological Imagination
TL;DR: The sociological imagination is a sociological vision, a way of looking at the world that can see links between the apparently private problems of the individual and important social issues as discussed by the authors.
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The Rules of Sociological Method
Emile Durkheim,Steven Lukes +1 more
TL;DR: The Rules of the Sociological Method as discussed by the authors is one of the most important contributions to the field of sociology, still debated among scholars today, and has been a focal point of sociology since its original publication.
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A Value-Belief-Norm Theory of Support for Social Movements: The Case of Environmentalism
TL;DR: In this article, a value-belief-norm (VBN) theory of movement support is proposed, which states that individuals who accept a movement's basic values, believe that valued objects are threatened, and believe that their actions can help restore those values experience an obligation (personal norm) for pro-movement action that creates a predisposition to provide support; the particular type of support that results is dependent on the individual's capabilities and constraints.
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STIRPAT, IPAT and ImPACT: analytic tools for unpacking the driving forces of environmental impacts
TL;DR: In this paper, the STIRPAT model is augmented with measures of ecological elasticity, which allows for a more precise specification of the sensitivity of environmental impacts to the forces driving them.