SOCI 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 24: Paradigm Shift, Deep Ecology, Human Ecology
10 Apr 2018
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Human beings contribute to the deterioration of the environment so there is a connection between sociology and the environment. For environmental sociology the legacy of human ecology provided a theoretical perspective capable of being reactivated at the moment when the environmental movement crystallized a broadly based sociological interest in the environment. Sociological interest in resource scarcity addresses questions of world population growth, the limits of global carrying capacity and the relationship between development and scarcity. Human exemptionalism paradigm: humans are separate from and superior to other things in nature. Catton and dunlap changed this when they felt they needed a paradigm shift for the new environmental sociology this was called the new ecological paradigm. This shift according to them should be referred to as the principal paradigmatic cleavage in sociology. Risk society: the evolution toward a new modernity reflecting social change on a global scale.
