Environmental Sociology for All Walks of Life, Preliminary Edition

Serving as a primer on Environmental Sociology, Environmental Sociology for All Walks of Life provides a concise overview of this crucial topic for students and members of the public who already appreciate sociology.

If we must all be sociologists, we must all be environmental sociologists. Environmental sociology is essential for understanding how social factors shape our planetary home and vice versa. We know that Earth’s environment is rapidly deteriorating and that humanity is in many ways to blame. But as the environment deteriorates, so do human communities and the habitats of countless other species. We urgently need to understand the social factors behind environmental degradation and the impact of environmental degradation on our human and nonhuman communities. And then, we must restore that fundamental relationship to work for us and life in general. Environmental sociology sheds light on how and why people relate to and care for this Earth.

In the spirit of an introductory exploration of environmental sociology, the ideas, and interpretations you will find here are intended to explore and stimulate interest, understanding, conversation, action, and positive change. Therefore, you may encounter discrepancies between the representations given here and others. This may be food for thought.