12 Facts About Environmental sociology

Environmental sociology is the study of interactions between societies and their natural environment.

Environmental sociology emerged as a subfield of sociology in the late 1970s in response to the emergence of the environmental movement in the 1960s.

Environmental sociology is typically defined as the sociological study of socio-environmental interactions, although this definition immediately presents the problem of integrating human cultures with the rest of the environment.

Environmental sociology emerged as a coherent subfield of inquiry after the environmental movement of the 1960s and early 1970s.

Since the 1970s, general sociology has noticeably transformed to include environmental forces in social explanations.

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Environmental sociology has now solidified as a respected, interdisciplinary field of study in academia.

Environmental sociology argues that famines would only occur in non-functioning democracies or unrepresentative states.

Environmental sociology gives the example of the organized degradation of rainforest areas which states and capitalists push people off the land before it is degraded by organizational means.

Contrary to previous assumptions that classical theorists in Environmental sociology all had fallen within a Human Exemptionalist Paradigm, Foster argued that Marx's materialism lead him to theorize labor as the metabolic process between humanity and the rest of nature.

Environmental sociology argued that instead of environmental movements being "New Social Movements" peculiar to current societies, environmental movements are very old—being expressed via religious movements in the past that begin to focus on material concerns of health, local ecology, and economic protest against state policy and its extractions.

Environmental sociology argues past or present is very similar: that we have participated with a tragic common civilizational process of environmental degradation, economic consolidation, and lack of political representation for many millennia which has predictable outcomes.

Environmental sociology argues that a form of bioregionalism, the bioregional state, is required to deal with political corruption in present or in past societies connected to environmental degradation.