5 Questions
Which field of study focuses on the social factors that influence environmental resource management and cause environmental issues?
Environmental sociology
When did environmental sociology emerge as a subfield of sociology?
Late 1970s
What does environmental sociology study?
Interactions between societies and their natural environment
What does environmental sociology consider as social issues?
Environmental problems
What does environmental sociology focus on that extends earlier sociology?
Physical context as related to social factors
Study Notes
Environmental Sociology
- Focuses on the social factors that influence environmental resource management and cause environmental issues
Emergence of Environmental Sociology
- Emerged as a subfield of sociology in the 1970s
Scope of Environmental Sociology
- Studies the relationships between human societies and the environment
- Examines how social processes and structures affect the environment
- Investigates how environmental issues affect social dynamics and human societies
Social Issues in Environmental Sociology
- Considers environmental degradation, pollution, and resource depletion as social issues
- Examines how social inequality, poverty, and power imbalance contribute to environmental problems
- Investigates how environmental issues disproportionately affect vulnerable populations
Unique Focus of Environmental Sociology
- Extends earlier sociology by focusing on the interactions between human societies and the environment
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