R SOC375 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Climate Change Mitigation, Price Signal, Climate Change Denial

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Rural Sociology
• Course: R SOC375
• Professor: John Parkins

Document Summary

Ideology, capitalism, and climate: explaining public views about climate change in the. 140 empirical studies focused on climate change views drawn mostly from sociology and psychology. Key predictors of climate change views and theoretical explanations in depth and dimensionality of the views. This study assesses the strength and consistency of potential predictors across key dimensions of climate change views: broad interpretation of the anti-reflexivity thesis. Integrates bottom-up social psychological explanations and top-down structural mobilization explanations. Predictors: values-beliefs-norms theory: explains critical importance of pro-env values, belifs, and identity on the env decision-making in general, postmaterialist values thesis, cultural theory. Pro-environmentalism only predictor of climate change views that has a statistically significant effect in theoretically expected direction in every study. (that includes it: a strong effect in predicting each of the 4 dimensions of climate change views. Next most consistent predictor is political orientation (political ideology and party identification)