SOC291 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Quality Management, Vandana Shiva, Progressive Alliance Of Socialists And Democrats

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Toxic and hazardous wastes, pesticide use (ddt), cfc"s, nuclear concerns, oil spills/ contamination. Lois gibbs love canal 1978 (buried toxic waste) The field of environmental sociology (80s - present) New and potentially greater environmental threats and risk (ulrich beck - risk society and living in an era of uncertainty) Global warming, fracking, technological disasters environmental refugees. Marx, weber, durkheim : minimal attention to environment. Sociology influenced by the industrial revolution (focus on capitalism, social change, social power) Society"s means to dominate and re-shape nature at will. Even today, sociological blind spot tendency to conduct sociology as through the human world is all there. In history been a dominant way we look at and treat the environment (humans are the centre) Masters of their destiny; choose goals and learn to do whatever s necessary. History of humanity = ongoing progress; solutions for problems. Arrogance toward nature turn bad on nature .

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