Course Outline -- Week 9
Wk 9 – Social Constructionism
Required
Hannigan, Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective, introduction, ch’s 1-7 (pp. 1-145); ch. 10, conclusion (pp. 178-191)
Taylor, Peter J. and Frederick H. Buttel. 1992. "How Do We Know We Have Global Environmental Problems?" Geoforum 23:405-416 (R)
Freudenburg, William R., et al. 1995. "Beyond the Nature/Society Divide: Learning to Think About a Mountain," Sociological Forum 10:361-392 (R)
Woodgate, Graham and Michael Redclift. 1998. "From a ‘Sociology of Nature’ to Environmental Sociology," Environmental Values 7:3-24 (R)
Recommended
Downs, Anthony. 1972. "Up and Down with Ecology: the Issue-Attention Cycle," Public Interest 28:38-50 (RR)
Buttel, Frederick H. and Peter J. Taylor. 1992. "Environmental Sociology and Global Environmental Change: A Critical Assessment," Society and Natural Resources 5:211-30 (RR)
Ungar, Sheldon. 1992. "The Rise and (Relative) Decline of Global Warming as a Social Problem," Sociological Quarterly 33:483-501 (RR)
Greider, Thomas and Lorraine Garkovich. 1994. "Landscapes: The Social Construction of Nature and the Environment," Rural Sociology 59:1-24 (RR)
Other
Burningham, Kate. 1998. "A Noisy Road or Noisy Resident?" Sociological Review 46: 536-563 (RR)
Quinn, Daniel, Ishmael [novel, recommended by Mike Starkey]
Redclift, Michael and Graham Woodgate, "Sustainability and Social Construction," pp. 55-62 in Redclift and Woodgate, eds., International Handbook of Environmental Sociology
Rochlin, Gene. 1999. "Safe Operation as a Social Construct," Ergonomics 42(11):1549-1560.
Rosa, Eugene A. and Thomas Dietz. 1998. "Climate Change and Society: Speculation, Construction, and Scientific Investigation," International Sociology 13:421-455.
Schneider, Joseph W., "Social Problems Theory: The Constructionist View," Annual Review of Sociology 11:209-229 [online] Available: <http://www.jstor.org>
Tarr, "Water and Wastes: A Retrospective Assessment of Wastewater Technology in the United States, 1800-1932," ch. 7 (pp. 179-217) in Search for the Ultimate Sink (V)
Ungar, Sheldon. 1995. "Social Scares and Global Warming: Beyond the Rio Convention," Society and Natural Resources 8:443-456 (RR)
Williams, Jerry and R. Scott Frey. 1997. "The Changing Status of Global Warming as a Societal Problem," Research in Community Sociology 7:279-299 (RR)
last updated January 25, 2002