SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Environmental Sociology, Human Ecology, Social Constructionism
15 Aug 2016
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The environment: social conditions and environmental quality are connected. The sub-field of environmental sociology is generally acknowledged to have originated in the. Post-world war ii prosperity allowed for greater attention to be directed at non-material issues including the environment. Environmental sociology studies the interrelationships between society and the environment. With a focus on the relationship between human social organization and the physical environment. Many believe that concern for the environment is more evident when the economy is strong. It took more than 1 million years for the population of the world to reach 1 billion around the mid nineteenth century. In the century and a half since then, this figure has increased to 6. 9 billion in 2010. Dramatic increases in the world population has been referred to as a time bomb threatening the world. Mainly affecting the 5. 5 billion people in developing countries: in africa, asia, latin america and the caribbean.
