@article{Lawson_2010, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Environmental Sociology}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/environmental-sociology}, abstractNote={Environmental Sociology examines social discourse on environmental issues. The narrative of this discourse conveys the natural connections between people, animals, minerals, land, water, and plants. It also introduces social constructs: pollution, over-consumption, resource depletion, habitat loss, risky technology, and rapid population growth. This course examines the social significance of these and other environmental conceptualizations from the standpoints of culture, ideology, moral values, and social inequality. The environment has emerged as a social problem in collective adaptation for the world community; we examine why the choice of whether to innovate solutions or attempt to remain in the status quo often reflects the needs of only a minority.}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Lawson, Helene}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }