Professor:	Course:
Douglas Smith	Section 001
104 Grise Hall	12:45 - 2:05 TR
Department of Sociology -- Western Kentucky University	134 Grise Hall
1906 College Heights Blvd. #11057
Bowling Green, KY 42101-1057
Phone: (270) 745-2152
Email: Douglas.Smith@wku.edu
Webpage: www.wku.edu/~Douglas.Smith/

Office Hours: TR 2:05 to 3:05pm or by appointment

Course Objective

Sociology 470 is a survey course specifically concerning the ways human beings relate to the world around them. My goal is to make you think sociologically about your own relation to the environment. I'm not interested in making clones of me. Nor am I interested in preaching at you or telling you how good or bad you are for the environment. I am interested in you becoming intelligent examiners of and participants in the social world around you so that you can create opportunities to build a just and sustainable future for yourselves and your children. Hopefully, you will discover how much the world shapes you and your life chances as well as how much the world is shaped by you. To do this I will provide you with knowledge of what environmental and natural resources sociology is and is not through an examination of its concepts, theories, and methods of investigation. It is hoped that the course will inspire you to seek out additional material on issues that are of interest to you.

We will begin by discussing (public) environmental worldviews and (scientific) environmental paradigms. This will lead into a discussion of how these attitudes and beliefs have affected or have not affected the main sociological theories. Next, we will examine how sociological theories focus on the three main areas of environmental concern: sustainability, environmental justice, and the rights of nature. We will end with a consideration of social movements working to build a more ecological society, their tactics, and their prospects for success.

Evaluation Criteria

This is NOT the standard exam driven course. Grades will be assigned on a 350-point scale:

Grade	Points Required
A	329 and above
B	287 - 328
C	245 - 286
D	210 - 244
F	209 or Less

Points are available for the activities listed below. Each student is expected to submit a game plan describing which activities they will undertake to the professor by the end of the day (5:00p) February 1, 2008.

NOTE: You must attempt at least 100 points prior to the midterm if you expect to skip the midterm exam. You will keep to your filed game plan you set unless you file a new one with the professor. You can file a new game plan during the week following the midterm examination. Again you will only be allowed to try up to 350 points.

ALSO NOTE: Students with disabilities who require accommodations (academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids or services) for this course must contact the Office for Student Disability Services, Room 445, Potter Hall. The OFSDS telephone number is (270) 745-5004 v/tty. Per University policy, please DO NOT request accommodations directly from the professor without a letter of accommodation from the Office for Student Disability Services.

Possible Activities

Attendance (60 points)

Attendance will be taken and is worth 2 points per day for each day you sign in.

Exams (100 points each)

A mid-term exam and a final exam will be offered.

Book Reviews (50 points each)

Students have the possibility to read and review environmental and/or natural resource sociology books. Students must OK the books with the discretion of the professor.The books are available either available in the library or from your professor. Moreover you can order them from any bookstore.

These reviews are designed to be both a critical assessment of the book's content as well as an opportunity for you to react to the material. These are NOT book reports where a simple reporting/regurgitation of the book generally suffices.

Book Review Guidelines

Sample Book Review

Term Paper (100 points)

This is a major writing assignment. The choice of topics is left to the student. Explore an area of interest to you. I strongly urge you to begin thinking about this paper and begin work on it as soon as possible. This paper will be due in class on December 11, 2009.

Form: Maximum length: 15-20 typed, double-spaced pages.

Content: Each student is expected to conduct library research on a topic of her/his choice related to the human-environment interface or on a particular natural resource or environmental issue or problem. This paper must reflect a critical analysis and review of the extant literature.

Sources: Scientific journals, monographs, and/or books.

Topic proposals must be submitted within the first four weeks of the course. It should include an outline of the proposed research paper. No proposals will be accepted after Friday, September 13, 2002.

Movie Reviews (25 points; limit 4)

We will hold an environmental film series over the course of this semester. .

Field Trips (25 points)

I will be looking for potential field experiences that we might take which would bring the society-environment relationship into closer focus. Students would attend and sociologically analyze the field trip. At the moment, there are no field trips scheduled; however, if the students are interested the professor would attempt to plan and lead trips. Given that we (the class) would have to align our actions with those individuals outside of the university, the professor and the students would need to agree on field trips very early in the semester. Students should not expect to schedule new field trips after February.

Special Events (15 points; limit 2)

From time-to-time, the professor and the students may become aware of campus/community activities that may demonstrate environmental sociology concepts and principles. If you attend these events, you may write them up. However, to receive the points, one will need to correctly use concepts from our texts and/or classroom experiences. Again, while I certainly encourage you to take advantage of every opportunity to learn, you can only write up two special events for credit.

Special Self-Directed Projects (25 points; limit 2)

Any student can design a special written project for him/herself for points. Each such report will be about five pages long and require at least 4 scholarly articles/books beyond the textbooks. Do these as early as possible since time will be a problem the last weeks of class. Any aspect of the human-environment relationship is fair game. Approval required; talk to the professor before starting.

Personal Creativity (15 points, limit 1)

You may submit a personal assignment for up to 15 points. Creativity is of the essence for this work. Cartoons, brochures, posters, editorial pieces in the paper, songs, poetry, sculpture, performance art and/or even three dimensional models of the sociological/ecological concepts from this course would qualify.

Tentative Course Schedule

September 1

Introduction to the Course

September 3

Constructing Reality: The Social Construction of Nature and Environmental Problems

Capek, Stella M. 2009. "The Social Construction of Nature: Of Computers, Butterflies, Dogs, and Trucks." Pp. 11-24 in Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology. New York: Oxford.

Hannigan, John A. 1995. "Social Construction of Environmental Problems." Pp. 32-54 in Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective. New York: Routledge.

Leopold, Aldo. 1949. "Thinking Like a Mountain." Pp. 129-133 in A Sand County Almanac. London: Oxford.

September 8

Human Ecology and Natural Resources Sociology

Park, Robert. 1936. "Human Ecology." The American Journal of Sociology 42(1):1-15.

Firey, Walter. 1999. "Introduction," "Approaches to Natural Resources," and "Differences among Resource Optima" Pp. 3-41 in Man, Mind, and Land: A Theory of Resource Use. Middleton, WI: Social Ecology Press.

Stankey, George H. and Stephen F. McCool. 2004. "Social Sciences and Natural Resources Management." Pp. 21-34 in Society and Natural Resources: A Summary of Knowledge. Jefferson, MI: Modern Litho.

Taylor, Jonathan G. and Suzanne N. Taylor. 2004. "Whither Human Ecology?" Pp. 261-270 in Society and Natural Resources: A Summary of Knowledge. Jefferson, MI: Modern Litho.

September 10

Social Theory and Environmental Sociology

Humphey, Craig R., Tammy L. Lewis, and Frederick H. Buttel. 2002. "Social Theory and the Environment." Pp. 34-68 in Environment, Energy and Society: A New Synthesis. Belmont, CA: Wadworth/Thompson Learning.

Barbosa, Luiz C. 2009. "Theories in Environmental Sociology." Pp. 25-46 in Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology. New York: Oxford.

September 15

Natural Resources Sociology and Environmental Sociology

Buttel, Frederick H. 2002. "Environmental Sociology and the Sociology of Natural Resources: Institutional Histories and Intellectual Legacies." Society and Natural Resources 15(3): 205-12.

Field, Donald R., A. E. Luloff, and Richard S. Krannich. 2002. "Revisiting the Origins of and Distinctions Between Natural Resource Sociology and Environmental Sociology." Society and Natural Resources 15(3):213-28.

Dunlap, Riley E. and William R. Catton, Jr. 2002. "Which Function(s) of the Environment Do We Study? A Comparison of Environmental and Natural Resource Sociology." Society and Natural Resources 15(3):239-249.

Freudenburg, William R. 2002. "Navel Warfare? The Best of Minds, the Worst of Minds and the Dangers of Misplaced Concreteness." Society and Natural Resources 15(3):229-237.

September 17

Ecological Self and Identity

Devall, Bill. 1988. "Chapter 2. The Ecological Self." Pp. 38-72. in Simple in Means, Rich in Ends: Practicing Deep Ecology. Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith Books.

Thomashow, Mitchell. 1995. Chapter 1. The Voices of Ecological Identity." Pp. 1 - 24 in Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

September 22

Constructing the Self with the Environment

Bixler, Robert D., Myron F. Floyd, and William E. Hammitt. 2002. "Environmental Socialization: Quantitative Tests of the Childhood Play Hypothesis." Environment and Behavior 34(6): 795-818.

Daniels, Glynis. 1995. "The Forest Related Content of Children's Textbooks: 1950-1991."

September 24

Constructing Identity: Image, Lifestyle, and The Treadmill of Consumption I

Bell, Michael Mayerfield. 2009. "Chapter 2. Consumption and Materialism" Pp. 33-56 in An Invitation to Environmental Sociology, 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press.

Shove, Elizabeth and Alan Warde. 2002. "Inconspicuous Consumption: The Sociology of Consumption, Lifestyles, and the Environment." Pp. 230-251 in R.E. Dunlap, F.H. Buttel, Peter Dickens, and August Gijswijt (eds.) Sociological Theory and the Environment: Classical Foundations, Contemporary Insights. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield.

September 29

Social Dilemma 1: The Tragedy of the Commons

Hardin, Garrett. 1968. "The Tragedy of the Commons," Science 162:1243-8.

Gardner, Gerald and Paul C. Stern. 2002. "Environmental Problems as a Tragedy of the Commons." Pp. 22-32 in Environmental Problems and Human Behavior. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing.

Thomashow, Mitchell. 1995. Pp. 67 - 83 in Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

October 1

Social Dilemma 2: The Free Rider Problem

Stroup, Richard L. 2000. "Free Riders and Collective Action Revisited." Independent Review 4(4):485-500.

Walsh, Edward J., and Rex H. Warland. 1983. "Social movement involvement in the wake of a nuclear accident: Activists and free riders in the TMI area." American Sociological Review 48(6): 764-780.

October 6

Individual Deviance

Forsyth, Craig J. and Thomas A. Marckese. 1993. "Thrills and Skills: A Sociological Analysis of Poaching." Deviant Behavior 14:157-172.

Fox, Nicols. 2003. "The Clothesline Question: How Hanging Out the Laundry Sparked a Political Firestorm." Utne Reader Nov-Dec(120): 47-49.

Jonathan Maus (ed). 2009. "National Organization Finds that Bike-to-School Bans Are on the Rise." (Accessed August 24, 2009)

Tunnell, Kenneth D. 2008. "Illegal Dumping: Large and Small Scale Littering in Rural Kentucky." Southern Rural Sociology 23(2):29-42.

October 8 -- FALL BREAK

October 13

Group Deviance

Beamish, Thomas D. 2005. "Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis." Pp. 173-187 in in Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Markowitz, Gerald and David Rosner. 2005. "Corporate Responsibility for Toxins." Pp. 188-201. in Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Freudenburg, William R. 2005. "Privileged Access, Privileged Accounts: Toward a Socially Structured Theory of Resources and Discourses." Social Forces 84(1):89-114.

October 15

Building Relationships: Relationships in and with the Environment

Hidalgo, M. Carmen and Bernardo Hernandez. 2002. "Attachment to the Physical Dimension of Places." Psychological Reports 91(3,Pt2):1177-82.

Fried, Marc. 2000. " Continuities and Discontinuities of Place." Journal of Environmental Psychology 20(3): 193-205.

Vaske, Jerry J. and Katherine C. Kobrin. 2001. "Place Attachment and Environmentally Responsible Behavior." Journal of Environmental Education 32(4):16-21.

Vorkinn, Marit and Hanne Riese. 2001. "Environmental Concern in a Local Context: The Significance of Place Attachment." Environment and Behavior 33:249-263.

October 20

Population

Harper, Charles. "Population, Environment, and Food." Pp. 179-224 in Environment and Society: Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Bates, Diane C. 2009. "Population, Demography, and the Environment." Pp. 107-124 in Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology. New York: Oxford.

October 22

The Treadmill of Production

Bell, Michael Mayerfield. 1998. "Money and Machines." Pp. 65-101 in An Invitation to Environmental Sociology. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press.

Schnaiberg, Allan. 2009. "Labor Productivity and the Environment." Pp. 59-67 in Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology. New York: Oxford.

October 27

Religious and Moral Approaches and the Environment

Gardner, Gerald and Paul C. Stern. 2002. "Religious and Moral Approaches: Changing Values, Beliefs, and Worldviews." Pp. 33-70 in Environmental Problems and Human Behavior. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing.

Jasper, James M. 1997. "The Necessity of Protest." Pp. 367-379 in The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social Movements. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Mitchell, Robert Cameron, Angela G. Mertig, and Riley E. Dunlap. 1992. "Twenty Years of Environmental Mobilization: Trends Among National Environmental Organizations." and "Not in Our Backyards: The Grassroots Environmental Movement." Pp. 11-38 in American Environmentalism: The U.S. Environmental Movement, 1970-1990. Washington, DC: Taylor and Francis.

October 29

Education and the Environment

Gardner, Gerald and Paul C. Stern. 2002. "Educational Interventions: Changing Attitudes and Providing Information." Pp. 71-94 in Environmental Problems and Human Behavior. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing.

Campbell, Elizabeth H.. 2009. "Corporate Power: The Role of the Global Media in Shaping What We Know About the Environment." Pp. 68-84 in Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology. New York: Oxford.

November 3

Economic Incentives for Pro-Environmental Behavior.

Gardner, Gerald and Paul C. Stern. 2002. "Changing the Incentives." Pp. 95-124 in Environmental Problems and Human Behavior. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing.

Hakes, Jay. 2008. "The Magic and Limits of Market-Based Solutions." Pp. 121-132 in A Declaration of Energy Independence: How Freedom from Foreign Oil Can Improve National Security, Our Economy, and the Environment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.

Hakes, Jay. 2008. "Solution Five: Adopt Energy Taxes Liberals and Conservatives Can Like." Pp. 191-201 in A Declaration of Energy Independence: How Freedom from Foreign Oil Can Improve National Security, Our Economy, and the Environment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.

November 5

Mid-South Education Research Association Meetings -- No Class

November 10

Community Matters

Thomashow, Mitchell. 1995. Pp. 84 -102 in Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

Gardner, Gerald and Paul C. Stern. 2002. "Community Management of the Commons." Pp. 125-151 in Environmental Problems and Human Behavior. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing.

Morton, Lois Wright. 2008. "The Role of Civic Structure in Achieving Performance-Based Watershed Management." Society and Natural Resources 21(9):751-766.

November 12

Futures

Gallopin, Gilberto C. and Paul Raskin. 1998. "Windows on the Future: Global Scenarios and Sustainability." Environment 40(3)

Kunstler, James Howard. 2005. "Living in the Long Emergency." Pp. 235-307 in The Long Emergency. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.

November 17

International and National Equity: Poverty Reduction

Sachs, Jeffrey D. 2005. "Making the Investments Needed to End Poverty." Pp. 244-265 in The End of Poverty. New York: Penguin Press.

Sachs, Jeffrey D. 2005. "Myths and Magic Bullets." Pp. 309-328 in The End of Poverty. New York: Penguin Press.

Easterly, William. 2006. The Future of Western Assistance." 367-384 in The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. New York: Penguin Press.

Collier, Paul. 2007. "An Agenda for Action." Pp.175-192 in The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It. New York: Oxford.

Develtere, Patrick and An Huybrechts. 2005. "The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh." Alternatives 30:165-189.

November 19

International and National Equity: Hunger Reduction

Buttel, Frederick H. 2000. "Ending Hunger in Developing Countries." Contemporary Sociology 29(1):13-27.

Allen, Patricia. 1999. "Reweaving the Food Security Safety Net: Mediating Entitlement and Entrepreneurship." Agriculture and Human Values 16:117-129.

Barrett, Christopher B. "Food Assistance Programs." Pp. 2135-2176 in Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Volume V2B: Agricultural and Food Policy. North Holland.

November 24

Reduce Carbon Emissions

Calvin, William. 2008. "Turning Around by 2020: How to Solve the Global Warming Problem." Skeptic 14(1):38-47.

Willson, Richard W. and Kyle D. Brown. "Carbon Neutrality at the Local Level: Achievable Goal or Fantasy?" Journal of the American Planning Association 74(4):497-504.

Wittman, Hannah K. and Cynthia Caron. 2009. "Carbon Offsets and Inequality: Social Costs and Co-Benefits in Guatemala and Sri Lanka." Society and Natural Resources 22(8):710-726.

Nicholson, Martin. 2009. "What's Needed to Save the Planet?" Pp. 156-164 in Energy in a Changing Climate. New South Wales, Australia: Rosenberg.

November 26 -- THANKSGIVING

December 1

Moving to Renewable Energy

Zahran, Sammy, Samuel D. Brody, Arnold Vedlitz, Michael G. Lacy and Chelsea Lynn Schelly. 2008. "Greening Local Energy: Explaining the Geographic Distribution of Household Solar Energy Use in the United States." Journal of the American Planning Association 74(4):419-434.

Toke, David, Sylvia Breukers, and Maarten Wolsink. 2008. "Wind Power Deployment Outcomes: How Can We Account for the Differences?" Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 12(4):1129-1147.

Sauter, Raphael and Jim Watson. 2007. "Strategies for the Deployment of Micro-Generation: Implications for Social Acceptance. Energy Policy 35(5):2770-2779.

Nicholson, Martin. 2009. "Energy Without Carbon," "What Next for the Watt?," "Where to for Transport?" Pp. 169-201 in Energy in a Changing Climate. New South Wales, Australia: Rosenberg.

Nicholson, Martin. 2009. "The Nuclear Explosion," "The Sun Will Always Shine and the Wind Will Always Blow (at Least Some of the Time)," and "Is There Still Hope?" Pp. 206-222 in Energy in a Changing Climate. New South Wales, Australia: Rosenberg.

December 3

Food and Land

Berry, Wendell. 2002. "The Pleasures of Eating." Pp. 321-327. in The Art of the Commonplace. Washington, DC: Counterpoint.

Beatley, Timothy and Kristy Manning. 1997. "The Ecology of Place." Pp. 86-136 in The Ecology of Place: Planning for Environment, Economy and Community. New York: Island Press.

Beatley, Timothy and Kristy Manning. 1997. "Getting There From Here." Pp. 194-232 in The Ecology of Place: Planning for Environment, Economy and Community. New York: Island Press.

Jeffrey L. Jordan and Douglas H. Constance. 2008. "Sustainable Agriculture and the Social Sciences: Getting Beyond Best Management Practices and into Food Systems." Southern Rural Sociology 23(1):1-22.

Nicholson, Martin. 2009. "Building Better Buildings" Pp. 202-205 in Energy in a Changing Climate. New South Wales, Australia: Rosenberg.

December 8

Access to Clean Water

Postel, Sandra L. 2000. "Entering an Era of Water Scarcity: The Challenges Ahead." Ecological Applications 10(4):941-948.

Parag, Yael and J. Timmons Roberts. 2009. "A Battle Against Bottles: Building, Claiming, and Regaining Tap-Water Trustworthiness." Society and Natural Resources 22(7):625-636.

World Bank. 1993. "Improving Water Resources Management." Pp. 40-64 in Water Resources Management. New York: World Bank.

Wong, Sam. 2008. "Humanising the World Bank's Sustainable Water Framework with 'Pro-poor' Principles of Governance." Social Alternatives 27(3):15-20.

December 10

Waste Solutions

Ebreo, Angela and Joanne Vining. 2001. "How Similar are Recycling and Waste Reduction? Future Orientation and Reasons for Reducing Waste as Predictors of Self-Reported Behavior." Environment and Behavior

Nicholson, Martin. 2009. "Getting More From Less" Pp. 165-168 in Energy in a Changing Climate. New South Wales, Australia: Rosenberg.

Fagan, G. Honor. 2003. "Sociological Reflections on Governing Waste." Irish Journal of Sociology 12(1):67-84.

Nolan, Jessica M. P. Wesley Schultz, and Eric S. Knowles. 2009. "Using Public Service Announcements to Change Behavior: No More Money and Oil Down the Drain." Journal of Applied Social Psychology 39(5):1035-1056.

Make-up Exams:

I view make-up exams as inherently unfair to the other students in the class, to me, and to you as well. Additionally, given the nature of the evaluation system stated above, I do not view them as necessary. Still, I will give a make-up exam if truly necessary. However, the petitioner must provide me with a written verification of illness, death, or other extenuating circumstances that required them to miss the exam. If a make-up exam is approved, it will be scheduled during finals week.

Sociology of Natural Resources and the Environment Fall 2009

Professor:

Course Objective

Evaluation Criteria

Grade

Points Required

Possible Activities

Book Review Guidelines

Sample Book Review

Term Paper (100 points)

Movie Reviews (25 points; limit 4)

Field Trips (25 points)

Special Events (15 points; limit 2)

Special Self-Directed Projects (25 points; limit 2)

Personal Creativity (15 points, limit 1)

Tentative Course Schedule

September 1

Introduction to the Course

September 3

Constructing Reality: The Social Construction of Nature and Environmental Problems

Capek, Stella M. 2009. "The Social Construction of Nature: Of Computers, Butterflies, Dogs, and Trucks." Pp. 11-24 in Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology. New York: Oxford.

Hannigan, John A. 1995. "Social Construction of Environmental Problems." Pp. 32-54 in Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective. New York: Routledge.

Leopold, Aldo. 1949. "Thinking Like a Mountain." Pp. 129-133 in A Sand County Almanac. London: Oxford.

September 8

Human Ecology and Natural Resources Sociology

Park, Robert. 1936. "Human Ecology." The American Journal of Sociology 42(1):1-15.

Firey, Walter. 1999. "Introduction," "Approaches to Natural Resources," and "Differences among Resource Optima" Pp. 3-41 in Man, Mind, and Land: A Theory of Resource Use. Middleton, WI: Social Ecology Press.

Stankey, George H. and Stephen F. McCool. 2004. "Social Sciences and Natural Resources Management." Pp. 21-34 in Society and Natural Resources: A Summary of Knowledge. Jefferson, MI: Modern Litho.

Taylor, Jonathan G. and Suzanne N. Taylor. 2004. "Whither Human Ecology?" Pp. 261-270 in Society and Natural Resources: A Summary of Knowledge. Jefferson, MI: Modern Litho.

September 10

Social Theory and Environmental Sociology

Humphey, Craig R., Tammy L. Lewis, and Frederick H. Buttel. 2002. "Social Theory and the Environment." Pp. 34-68 in Environment, Energy and Society: A New Synthesis. Belmont, CA: Wadworth/Thompson Learning.

Barbosa, Luiz C. 2009. "Theories in Environmental Sociology." Pp. 25-46 in Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology. New York: Oxford.

September 15

Natural Resources Sociology and Environmental Sociology

Buttel, Frederick H. 2002. "Environmental Sociology and the Sociology of Natural Resources: Institutional Histories and Intellectual Legacies." Society and Natural Resources 15(3): 205-12.

Field, Donald R., A. E. Luloff, and Richard S. Krannich. 2002. "Revisiting the Origins of and Distinctions Between Natural Resource Sociology and Environmental Sociology." Society and Natural Resources 15(3):213-28.

Dunlap, Riley E. and William R. Catton, Jr. 2002. "Which Function(s) of the Environment Do We Study? A Comparison of Environmental and Natural Resource Sociology." Society and Natural Resources 15(3):239-249.

Freudenburg, William R. 2002. "Navel Warfare? The Best of Minds, the Worst of Minds and the Dangers of Misplaced Concreteness." Society and Natural Resources 15(3):229-237.

September 17

Ecological Self and Identity

Devall, Bill. 1988. "Chapter 2. The Ecological Self." Pp. 38-72. in Simple in Means, Rich in Ends: Practicing Deep Ecology. Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith Books.

Thomashow, Mitchell. 1995. Chapter 1. The Voices of Ecological Identity." Pp. 1 - 24 in Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

September 22

Constructing the Self with the Environment

Bixler, Robert D., Myron F. Floyd, and William E. Hammitt. 2002. "Environmental Socialization: Quantitative Tests of the Childhood Play Hypothesis." Environment and Behavior 34(6): 795-818.

Daniels, Glynis. 1995. "The Forest Related Content of Children's Textbooks: 1950-1991."

September 24

Constructing Identity: Image, Lifestyle, and The Treadmill of Consumption I

Bell, Michael Mayerfield. 2009. "Chapter 2. Consumption and Materialism" Pp. 33-56 in An Invitation to Environmental Sociology, 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press.

September 29

Social Dilemma 1: The Tragedy of the Commons

Hardin, Garrett. 1968. "The Tragedy of the Commons," Science 162:1243-8.

Gardner, Gerald and Paul C. Stern. 2002. "Environmental Problems as a Tragedy of the Commons." Pp. 22-32 in Environmental Problems and Human Behavior. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing.

Thomashow, Mitchell. 1995. Pp. 67 - 83 in Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

October 1

Social Dilemma 2: The Free Rider Problem

Stroup, Richard L. 2000. "Free Riders and Collective Action Revisited." Independent Review 4(4):485-500.

Walsh, Edward J., and Rex H. Warland. 1983. "Social movement involvement in the wake of a nuclear accident: Activists and free riders in the TMI area." American Sociological Review 48(6): 764-780.

October 6

Individual Deviance

Forsyth, Craig J. and Thomas A. Marckese. 1993. "Thrills and Skills: A Sociological Analysis of Poaching." Deviant Behavior 14:157-172.

Fox, Nicols. 2003. "The Clothesline Question: How Hanging Out the Laundry Sparked a Political Firestorm." Utne Reader Nov-Dec(120): 47-49.

Jonathan Maus (ed). 2009. "National Organization Finds that Bike-to-School Bans Are on the Rise." (Accessed August 24, 2009)

Tunnell, Kenneth D. 2008. "Illegal Dumping: Large and Small Scale Littering in Rural Kentucky." Southern Rural Sociology 23(2):29-42.

October 8 -- FALL BREAK

October 13

Group Deviance

Beamish, Thomas D. 2005. "Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis." Pp. 173-187 in in Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Markowitz, Gerald and David Rosner. 2005. "Corporate Responsibility for Toxins." Pp. 188-201. in Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Freudenburg, William R. 2005. "Privileged Access, Privileged Accounts: Toward a Socially Structured Theory of Resources and Discourses." Social Forces 84(1):89-114.

October 15

Building Relationships: Relationships in and with the Environment

Hidalgo, M. Carmen and Bernardo Hernandez. 2002. "Attachment to the Physical Dimension of Places." Psychological Reports 91(3,Pt2):1177-82.

Fried, Marc. 2000. " Continuities and Discontinuities of Place." Journal of Environmental Psychology 20(3): 193-205.

Vaske, Jerry J. and Katherine C. Kobrin. 2001. "Place Attachment and Environmentally Responsible Behavior." Journal of Environmental Education 32(4):16-21.

Vorkinn, Marit and Hanne Riese. 2001. "Environmental Concern in a Local Context: The Significance of Place Attachment." Environment and Behavior 33:249-263.

October 20

Population

Harper, Charles. "Population, Environment, and Food." Pp. 179-224 in Environment and Society: Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Sociology of Natural Resources and the Environment
Fall 2009