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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