Environmental Sociology

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

Prereq: 6 credits from SOCI at the 2000 level; or permission of the Department This course is an introduction to environmental sociology and explores the interaction between the environment and human society. Using sociological perspective, the course explores how the technologies, consumption and production patterns, population trends, status systems, racialization, class, religion and culture, among others, affect the emergence of, and reactions to, environmental problems. This course investigates how the risks and harms of environmental problems are distributed across societies to understand the relationship between social systems and environmental inequalities. This course will also explore and introduce post materialism, global environmentalism, anti-reflexivity and political polarization. Instances of global injustice, environmental racism, regulatory practices and risk, the social creation of nature, as well as ecopopularism, will also be investigated. (Format: Lecture, 3 Hours)