SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Egalitarianism, Land Ethic, Environmental Sociology
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Sociology"s interest in the environment is of relatively recent vintage, stretching back only to the. There are several reasons for this neglect: By the early 1970s, stimulated by increased societal attention to urban decay, pollution, overpopulation, resource shortages, and so on, a number of sociologists began to study environmental issues. Dunlap and catton distinguished between a sociology of environmental issues and environmental sociology. Soei was concerned with environmentally related phenomena such as resource management problems and also concerned with the environmental movement. Es focused on the physical environment as a factor that may influence or is influenced by social behaviour. Today, es has also become a catchall for the study of all social aspects of the environment; it has propelled sociological inquiry into new areas. However, the field has made it difficult to assemble a cohesive body of work built on strong theoretical foundations.
