| CODE | SOC2010 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Environmental Sociology | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Sociology | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Theorising the social and the natural: Social constructivism; Critical Realism; The New Materialism Social Context and the Environment: Capitalism; Risk Society; The Environmental Self Environmental and Social Impacts; Environmental ideologies and policies; Environmental movements. Study-unit Aims: Conceptualization of the nature-social interaction. Analyses of environmental issues and environmentalism from a sociological perspective. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - analyse the importance of sociological constructs in environmental analysis; - trace the development of environmental ideologies and discourses and their influence on policy-making; - analyse the interaction between nature and society. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - sociologically reflect and critically engage with environmental issues; - recognize the plurality of environmental ideologies and discourses; - apply the course material to analyse specific environmental issues; - write a scholarly paper. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings - Stuart, Diana (2021) What is Environmental Sociology? (Wiley) - Sutton, Philip W. (2007): The Environment - A Sociological Introduction. Polity. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Michael Briguglio |
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