SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Lois Gibbs, Love Canal, Rachel Carson
23 Sep 2016
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Quarantine: environment is clean and sick people kept out of environment. Inverted quarantine: environment is sick, people protect themselves. Sociology"s contribution: analyze/critique broader economic forces and social structures to address environmental problems. Social processes by which environmental conditions become socially de ned as problems. Saw how ddt and cfcs were having an impact on these things. Learned that there was chemical waste under her community. The very complexity of modern technologies ensures that they will inevitably fail, though in unpredictable ways. Fukushima daiichi - nuclear power plant disaster (march 2011) Successful industrialization often means the end of scarcity, but it has caused a multitude of problems (risks) and stress. Society in which technology distributes danger among all categories of the population. Sf - environmental problems are a byproduct of modernization, and can be controlled by laws, norms, and collective action. Natural sciences agree that human society is the root cause of environmental problems.
