Sociology and the environment: An analysis of journal coverage

Krogman, Naomi; Darlington, JoAnne DeRouen

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“…Krogman and Darlington (1996) trace the development of scholarship in environmental sociology. They report counts of articles on the environment in nine mainline, refereed sociology journals by year from 1969 to 1994.…”

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“…We ask: What impact has 25 years of research by environmental sociologists had on introductory sociology textbooks? We have empirical evidence of the impact of environmental sociology on mainstream sociology journals (Krogman and Darlington 1996). We have no way of gauging, however, how classroom instructors are presenting this scholarship through assigned textbooks, especially in undergraduate introductory sociology courses.…”

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Sociology and the Environment: An Analysis of Coverage in Introductory Sociology Textbooks

Lewis

Humphrey²

2005

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Using content analysis, this research examines the impact of the first 25 years of environmental sociology research on current introductory sociology textbooks. The investigators searched the texts for 40 key concepts in environmental sociology and for the inclusion of works by 20 award-winning environmental sociologists. On average, the texts cited 7 of the 40 key concepts. Eliminating multiple citations to a page, the total number of pages cited averaged just under three percent per book. On average, the texts cite four works by influential environmental sociologists. The texts, however, omitted some of the most central, unique concepts in the field. The texts typically treated environmental issues as social problems rather than as the by-products of institutionalized behaviors or practices. There tends to be a positive relationship between the sales of a text and the discussion of the environment.

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Sociology and the Environment: An Analysis of Coverage in Introductory Sociology Textbooks

Lewis

Humphrey²

2005

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“…Whether, how, and to what degree the biophysical or ecological setting of human action in general-and the character of specific settings in particular-are also operative in the identity processes remains an open debate; the relevance of environmental variables, even where not openly rejected, remain implicit and underexplored (Krogman & Darlington, 1996). Burke and Stets (2009), for example, acknowledge that biophysical elements provide resources and physical settings for the functioning of systems of interaction but seem to uncritically lump these elements together under the rubric of social structure, implying that ecological and social elements are functionally indistinguishable in identity formation and maintenance processes.…”

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Engaging with Human Identity in Social-Ecological Systems: A Dialectical Approach

Ingalls¹,

Stedman²

2017

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Vexing problems of global environmental change call for better conceptual and analytical approaches for understanding human behaviors, factors influencing these behaviors, and the causal pathways through which these shape social and environmental outcomes. While human identity meanings provide key analytic objects in the interrogation of these dynamics, identity-based research has been truncated by a historic overemphasis on social factors and a lack of critical engagement with the ecological context of these processes. Adapting Giddens's concept of structuration, we draw on recent advances in socialecological systems scholarship and human structural ecology to propose a new conceptual approach for understanding human identity processes and their relation to social-ecological structure. Resituating the human person within complex socialecological systems, we suggest some causal pathways through which ecological (in addition to social) elements are active in the emergence of human identity and, conversely, the ways in which identity-based behaviors interact dialectically with social-ecological structure to produce outcomes significant along both social and ecological dimensions. Finally, we explore some implications of this reframing for the interrogation of society-nature dynamics and for empirical research engaging with social-ecological change and resilience.

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“…The resistance until recently of mainstream sociological journals to publish such work is just one manifestation of this negative reinforcement of the human exemptionalist paradigm (Krogman & Darlington, 1996). Despite these disciplinary sanctions, environmental sociologists have begun to play a growing role in research on environmental governance, relying on interdisciplinary journals such as Organization & Environment to publish their work.…”

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Understanding Environmental Governance

Davidson

Frickel

2004

Organization & Environment

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This article presents an historical sketch of the insights and applications provided by social science scholars on environmental governance. The authors begin with a review of the conceptual developments during the past 50 years characterized in terms of six conceptual perspectives: pluralism, agency capture, ecological Marxism, ecological modernization, social constructionism, and global environmentalism. This section is followed by an empirical analysis of academic journal coverage of research on environmental governance from 1963 to 2001 listed in the database Sociological Abstracts. The authors conclude that an understanding of the potential for environmental improvement could be advanced by the treatment of works that fall within the conceptual typology described herein, as a cumulative body of interdisciplinary knowledge. Advancements in this area could, furthermore, be facilitated through a broadening of empirical and methodological treatment of environmental governance and a greater attention to macro-structural relations among state and societal forces and environmental phenomena.

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Sociology and the environment: An analysis of journal coverage

Cited by 13 publications

References 46 publications

Sociology and the Environment: An Analysis of Coverage in Introductory Sociology Textbooks

Sociology and the Environment: An Analysis of Coverage in Introductory Sociology Textbooks

Engaging with Human Identity in Social-Ecological Systems: A Dialectical Approach

Understanding Environmental Governance

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