SOCIO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Earth Day, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: Diablo Valley College
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIO-120
• Professor: Brown

Document Summary

All social movements seek to organize and persuade by framing and mobilizing resources. Framing- the process by which individuals and groups manipulate perceptions of other- especially relevant for understanding how social movements, political campaigns, political commentators manipulate their messages for public consumption. Get the word out (brochures, newspapers, magazines, hats/t-shirts, websites & social media) Sociologists look at many types of social movements, including: labor movements, status equality movements, conservative movements. We will talk about sm"s as they are related to food, agriculture, and the environment. Sociological study of the environment, as well as the food and agricultural system, has been occurring in sociology for many decades. Environment influences society and society influences the environment. Particularly important for rural communities, as they interact with and reply more upon the environment. Resources like timber, coal, natural gas, etc. tend to come from rural places but. Increasing population and economic development=serious environmental consequences are often used to benefit urban people. (i. e. pollution)