SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ozone Layer, Love Canal, Scientific Community
16 Sep 2016
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Environmental claims often tied to scientific claims. Social construction of environment problem assembling, presenting, and contesting claims. ~they have a link to the media and many more links. Ozone layer hole : ~ changing the tactic of the language being used. Military metaphors: ~ time sars attack. Particular events can force an issue to prominence: ex. ~ number one being the government, you want to have the media on the side. More successful at getting issues on the agenda than getting action. ~ if you don"t have politicians on the side, it wouldn"t be as successful, wont be take up. Action from political arena often event-driven . There are 3 tasks associated with social construction of environmental problems assembling claims, presenting claims and contesting claims. Look for: regulation (or lack thereof, connection to peoples actions (ie there are not naturally occurring problems they are a result of human actions) and often corporate greed.
