Workshop on Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change

In addition, we have identified four crosscutting themes that are of crucial relevance for the study of each analytical problem ...

• Theories of social movements and social movement mobilization could inform research about the challenges and opportunities ...

Steven R. Brechin Syracuse University What do we know: What does Sociology bring to the table for studying the human dimensions ...

The Sociological Problem of Predicting the Future - Bias against teleology: Interestingly, we all individually and collectively ...

Responding Before or After: How does one mobilize? One of the most pressing issues that I see can be summarized in this question ...

Climate change – like many issues of science – is complex and difficult for the lay public to understand. This makes discussion ...

and disproportionality. Basically, only a few bad actors produce the vast majority of the pollution in any given industry. In sh ...

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Jeffrey Broadbent University of Minnesota What do we know: What does Sociology bring to the table for studying the human dimensi ...

on promises to act in collectively beneficial ways to the extent that their immediate personal incentives to defect are high and ...

Under a given international climate change regime or set of institutional rules, nations respond differently according to the re ...

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Robert D. Bullard Clark Atlanta University Sociology of Global Climate Change: Toward an Environmental Justice Frame What do we ...

exceeds 150,000 deaths per year. Many diseases are highly sensitive to changing temperatures and precipitation, including vector ...

practices used by insurance companies, banks, and mortgage companies are built largely around racialized zip codes. Historically ...

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Penelope Canan University of Central Florida Ideas and Methods that Sociology Can Contribute to Climate Change Studies What do w ...

C. Organize this framework for comparison and information retrieval according to a simple extension of the POET mnemonic of the ...

II. Promote the widespread understanding of communities as networks of power (for and against change) participating in a revolut ...

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