Sociology 3328: Graduate Workshop in Climate Sociology

The graduate workshop on Climate Sociology offers a venue for discussing new research that takes a sociological perspective toward climate change. Such perspectives include Environmental Sociology as well as areas of the field that have tended to develop independently of the problems of climate change, such as Social Organization, Social Stratification, Culture, Gender, Immigration, Political Sociology, and Race and Ethnicity. We encourage such disciplinary breadth of engagement in the problems of climate change because of the urgency of the climate crisis, and because we believe all sociologists can contribute to human knowledge about the causes and effects of climate change. For instance, although the topic of energy transition has been dominated by the physical sciences and economics, sociological insight into the forms of organizational ownership and control, the relationship between the rules of the game and the distribution of winners and losers, and the social meanings that attach to physical structures like oil wells and wind turbines all lead to more effective action on climate change. We welcome qualitative, quantitative, mixed-method, and applied research.

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