SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Ecofeminism, Gaia Hypothesis, Deep Ecology
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Downplay of biological/physical factors influencing human affairs while emphasizing importance of social factors. Human exceptionalism paradigm: worldview that features the ideals of steadily evolving social progress, increasing prosperity and material comfort, and class mobility for all segments of society while ignoring the environmental costs of economic growth. **assumption that technology is fueled by unlimited natural resources. Finally started to focus on environmental issues in the 1970s. Sociology of environmental issues is concerned with environmentally related phenomena (resource management problems in wildlands or origins, memberships and beliefs of environmental movement). Environment sociology deals with how physical environment may influence social behavior. Dominant paradigm: widely accepted view of the world that emphasizes the moral imperative of material wealth creation and the moral conviction that humans have the right to dominate nature and harness the environment to that end. **stresses materialism, economic growth and the human right to dominate nature , in other words ,economic growth at the expense of the environment.
