Workshop on Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change

Kari Marie Norgaard Whitman College The Social Organization of Climate Denial What do we know: What does Sociology bring to the ...

ourselves from disturbing information in order to 1) avoid emotions of fear, guilt and helplessness, 2) follow cultural norms an ...

Response Barrier: Gap between Information and Daily Life. Possible Leverage Point: Impact Assessments, Disaster Preparedness, an ...

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Simone Pulver Brown University Transitioning to a Low-Carbon Economy: The sociological contribution What do we know: What does S ...

What do we need to know: What are the major sociological research questions? A bottom-up, micro-agent perspective provides insig ...

realities of developing-country firms. At a minimum, developing-country firms seem to differ from their industrialized-country c ...

economies; and 4) research on global climate governance and carbon markets. Research in each of these four areas will enhance so ...

Labor Relationships in North America. American Journal of Sociology 111 (3):715-756. Koehler, Gernot, and Emilio Jose Chaves, ed ...

Strategies. Global Environmental Politics 4 (1):18-42. Sonnenfeld, David. 1998. From Brown to Green? Late Industrialization, Soc ...

Timmons Roberts College of William and Mary What do we know: What does Sociology bring to the table for studying the human dimen ...

current and likely impacts of climate change. On the U.S. side we have no such thing: we need to chronicle the very first steps ...

Eugene A. Rosa Washington State University What do we know: What does Sociology bring to the table for studying the human dimens ...

structures, painfully little of this knowledge has seen its way into the climate change literature. The meagerness of the sociol ...

1999 • Understanding environmentally significant consumption • Regional relevance of climate change assessments • Asses ...

Rosa, Eugene A. and Thomas Dietz. 1998. “Climate Change and Society: Speculation, Construction, and Scientific Investigation.” I ...

Rachel Slocum St. Cloud State University The Sociology of Climate Change: Research Priorities What do we know: What does Sociolo ...

attachment of northern peoples to the polar bear (Slocum 2004), or of indigenous people organizing around the right to be cold ( ...

changes that complement and make more complex the data obtained through quantitative analyses or questions asked via a Western s ...

development. The Inuit are less able to adapt than other social groups due to socio-economic factors (Ford, 2008) and the affect ...