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Environment and Social Movements - Introductory Sociology - Lecture Slides, Slides of Introduction to Sociology

Environment and Social Movements, Environment as a Social Problem, Consumption and Waste, Environmental Sociology, Environmental Movement, Environmental Attitudes, Social Change, Social Movements, Natural and Human, Renewable and Nonrenewable are the key points of this lecture.

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Chapters 15 and 16
The Environment and
Social Movements
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Chapters 15 and 16

The Environment and

Social Movements

Overview

  • Environmental Sociology (Chapter 15)
    • The Environment as a Social Problem
      • Consumption and Waste  In-Class Exercise
    • The Environmental Movement
      • Environmental Attitudes
  • Social Change (Chapter16)
    • Social Movements
      • Video Presentation: “Diet for a New America”

Declining biodiversity:

the Rainforest

In-Class Exercise:

Friend of the Environment

The Environmental Movement

  • Social movement
    • Early (Conservation Era) Environmental Movement (1890-1900s) - National Park system - Environmental interest groups
    • Modern Environmental Movement (1960s)
      • Carson’s “Silent Spring”
      • Santa Barbara oil spill 1969
    • Mainstream Environmentalism (1970-80s)
      • Earth Day
      • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Santa Barbara Oil Spill

  • Union Oil platform
    • 6 miles out from Summerland
  • January 29, 1969
    • 11 days
    • 100,000 barrels of crude oil
    • 800 square miles of ocean
    • 35 miles of coastline

Social Movements

  • Group organized to promote or resist social
change
  • Activism
    • Activity intended to bring about social change
  • Who takes part?
  • Progressive
  • Promotes forward-thinking social change
  • Regressive
  • Resists social change
  • Maintain status quo or re-establish previous form of society
  • Organizing a Social Movement
    • The importance of resource

mobilization:

  • Recruitment
  • Fundraising
  • Media coverage
  • Role of Mass Media
  • Leaders use propaganda to manipulate media and influence public opinion