Sociology and the Environment: An Analysis of Coverage in Introductory Sociology Textbooks

Author:

Lewis Tammy L.1,Humphrey Craig R.2

Affiliation:

1. Tammy L. Lewis, an assistant professor at Muhlenberg College, teaches Introduction to Sociology and Environmental Sociology. She is a council member of the ASA's Environment and Technology section. Her main research areas include social movements and environmental sociology. Her current research is on coalition formation between environmental groups and labor organizations.

2. Craig R. Humphrey has a long-standing teaching and research interest in urban and environmental sociology. Working with Tammy L. Lewis (Muhlenberg) and Frederick H. Buttel (Wisconsin), Craig co-authored Environment, Energy, and Society: A New Synthesis (Wadsworth, 2002) and co-edited Environment, Energy, and Society: Exemplary Works (Wadsworth, 2003). His most recent work-an article, “Rachel Carson and the Wilderness Act: Progressive Conservation Transformed”—is in review. He taught sociology at the...

Abstract

Using content analysis, this research examines the impact of the first 25 years of environmental sociology research on current introductory sociology textbooks. The investigators searched the texts for 40 key concepts in environmental sociology and for the inclusion of works by 20 award-winning environmental sociologists. On average, the texts cited 7 of the 40 key concepts. Eliminating multiple citations to a page, the total number of pages cited averaged just under three percent per book. On average, the texts cite four works by influential environmental sociologists. The texts, however, omitted some of the most central, unique concepts in the field. The texts typically treated environmental issues as social problems rather than as the by-products of institutionalized behaviors or practices. There tends to be a positive relationship between the sales of a text and the discussion of the environment.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Sociology and Political Science,Education

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