SOC101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Ozone Depletion, Operational Definition, Anniston, Alabama

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC101
• Professor: Patrick Lalonde

Document Summary

Environmental sociology: examines the history of our relationship with the environment, focusing especially on where we have gone wrong and looking for ways to reverse our mistakes in the future. Two keys to assessing environmental arguments from a social scientific. Perspective: operational definitions are vital in the process of social politics concerning social issues. Vested interest: any interest in the results of a scientific study- and the way those results are interpreted- that may be strong enough to override the interest of ensuring those results are a(cid:272)(cid:272)urate, or (cid:858)truthful(cid:859). Hunter-and-gatherer communities: survived by fishing, hunting, and harvesting wild crops, and typically nomadic: aboriginal hunter-and-gatherer societies hunting over areas periodically to allow species to return to a viable population size; understood that conservation of a specifies meant survival. Farming culture: when people began to put down (cid:858)roots(cid:859) and settle in fixed communities where they could grow crops and raise animals that had once been wild.