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Sociology and Climate Change: A Review and Research Agenda

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For nearly four decades, scientists warning of the likely impacts of global warming put substantial efforts into educating the public about the increasing dangers and the actions that would be needed to respond. The prevailing, if unstated, theory of change was that more information about the gravity of the risks would drive people, and policy-makers, to act. Despite four decades of delay and even rollback in many countries, this “post-political” stance remains nearly universal among many natural scientists and educators (Dunlap & Brulle, 2015). To social scientists, in particular sociologists, it should be clear that economics and politics are central to climate change: to its causes, its consequences, and to the difficulty of mustering adequate climate action. Scientific facts are indispensable, but deeper understandings of the social systems and structures in which climate change has emerged as an issue and in which it is addressed are just as urgently needed.

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Falzon, D., Roberts, J.T., Brulle, R.J. (2021). Sociology and Climate Change: A Review and Research Agenda. In: Schaefer Caniglia, B., Jorgenson, A., Malin, S.A., Peek, L., Pellow, D.N., Huang, X. (eds) Handbook of Environmental Sociology. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77712-8_10

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