SOC 2280 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Constructionism, Environmental Sociology, Slow Food
10 Dec 2016
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We have predisposed requirements like reproduction and basic needs (shelter, food, water) Decisions are less instinct and more evidence based. Environmental sociology as a field is a challenge because we look at it from us vs. them and also from us all in the same group. But we only really remember that we are animals and a part of nature when our sense of control is threatened- or destroyed. There exists a division between people and nature people too. We are mortal beings yes, but our quality of life appears much more rooted in the human world- the quality of our jobs, family life, access to technologies, medicine, housing, social networks, and material wealth. We are nothing but organisms tightly bound to nature. We are exempt from the ecological rules and natural forces that govern other species due, in part, to our capacity to alter the environment. Environmental sociology is somewhere between these 2.
