Chapter 1: Environmental Problems and Society Flashcards
Sociological Imagination
The ability to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society in order to understand our lives as minute points of the intersections of biography and history within society.
Adding ecology to the definition of sociological imagination gets you
Environmental sociological imagination
Environmental sociology
the study of community in the largest possible sense, the community of all with an eye to understanding the origins of, and proposing solutions to, these all-too-real social and biophysical conflicts.
What is deeply rooted in the effects and causes of environmental problems and is both a product and a producer of climate change?
Inequality
_____ is the study of natural communities; _____ is the study of human communities: the study of both together is_____
Ecology; sociology; social ecology
What do Materialists argue must be done to solve our environmental problems?
To solve our environmental problems, materialist must solve the social organizational issues behind the problems such as land use laws and the overreliance on cars.
What do idealists believe must be done to solve our environmental problems?
To solve our environmental problems idealists argue that the first step must be to understand our environmental ideologies and their social connections to prevent our solutions from leading into other conflicts.
An idealist does not believe what a materialist does.
False
Ecological dialogue
The mutual and unfinalizable interrelationship between what we see and feel and what we believe; Ecological dialogue is a way to conceptualize power and our ability to do, to think, to be.
Environmental Justice
The flourishing of mutual aid through communal ties within and across social ecology; the understanding that we as human beings on this Earth thrive better in community.
Transformative Justice
Calls for identifying and changing gaps in mutual aid. Such gaps manifest themselves within three intersecting axes of environmental justice: across time, across social space, and across species.
Contempocentrism
It is difficult for us to wrap our minds around threats in the unforeseeable future
Disparities in environmental justice across social space find expression in the distribution of environmental costs and benefits in what we might call ________ ______ and ________ _______.
environmental bads and environmental goods.
Environmental racism
social heritage differences in the distribution of environmental goods and bads due to either intentional or institutional reasons.
Environmental justice is concerned with all species, human and non-human.
True
