Chapter #14 Flashcards
Environmental Sociology?
Fastest-growing subdiscipline that examines our relationship with the environment.
Vested Interests?
Any social or financial interest a party might have in the results of scientific studies and the way those results are interpreted.
Two different ways of interpreting workplace-related illness and injury?
Social ecology view
* C. W. Mills’s sociological imagination
* Class conflict
Sociologically uninformed way
* William Ryan’s notion of blaming the victim
The Environment and “Race”/Ethnicity
Pollution is often racialized, also referred to as environmental racism
* Examples
– Predominantly white nations dump waste in poorer black nations
-Canada shipped most of its asbestos to developing nations
what was Affricville
Africville was a black village in Nova Scotia
-the City of Halifax razed and relocated the community between 1964 to 1970. as a act of Racism.
-In 1996, it was declared a National Historic Site
The Environment and Social Class?
Class and the environment are often clearly linked
* Lower-class people, often racially marginalized, are more likely to live and work in conditions characterized by high levels of pollution or environmental hazards, and inadequate living conditions
The China Price and Competitive Advantage?
China is the world’s leading exporter of goods However, this advantage comes at the expense of exploiting workers and the environment
* This advantage has been called “survival of the cheapest,” which has produced millions of environmental refugees who have few health benefits or rights
what is partisan issue?
Partisan refers to any material that could be seen as telling people which party or candidate to vote for or not to vote for.
The Sociology of Climate Change.
Climate change has some serious sociological implications
–Activists, entrepreneurs, everybody today has a quick fix for global warming
* There’s a need for sociologists of today and the future to point to the social impacts of the ideas being proposed
