SOC 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Collective Identity, Commodification, Social Inequality

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2280
• Professor: Amanda Hookyaas

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Its fine to identify threats to the environment and to determine best courses of action, but in that pursuit its also important to remember that the perception of what constitutes a problem varies between individuals and societies. Ddt used to get rid of mosquitos and cure malaria potentially, but in canada its bad. The term was rarely used before the 1960s. Today the term is so closely aligned with our lives, it is difficult to decipher what it means. People and the environment- main focus in this course. Scare tactics/ activism- polar bears are dying, water levels rising. Environmentalism can be considered one of the most successful social movements of all time. Internationally, environmentalism has been more widely accepted tha(cid:374) the (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, the hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) rights (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, or the labor movement. European and north american cultures saw nature as an adversary. Wilderness = unknown = danger = to be feared. (cid:862)protecti(cid:374)g ourselves fro(cid:373) (cid:374)ature. (cid:863)