SOC 281 Introduction to Environment and Society
Introduces the subdiscipline of environmental sociology that focuses on the relationship between society and the environment. Explores the basic concepts in sociology and applies them to a range of environment and natural resource issues. Explores how various human populations experience and make sense of environmental issues. Examines social policies and actions to address environmental challenges.
Notes
Lower Division Transfer (LDT) Course
General Education Requirements
AAOT Cultural Literacy, AAOT Social Sciences, AAS Human Relations, AGS Social Science, AS Social Science
Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Explain the informal and formal structures and processes of institutions and human behavior. Describe how quantitative and qualitative data are used to explain human behavior. Summarize and differentiate major scientific concepts and theories used in community sociology and environmental sociology. Explain how human populations, cultures, and subcultures view and are affected by environmental issues. Characterize your individual role in the structures, processes, or institutions of society. Explain how ascribed differences are socially constructed, change over time, and impact our and others’ lived experiences. Articulate– using historical and contemporary examples – how ascribed differences, combined with inequitable distribution of power across cultural, economic, social, and/or political institutions, result in racism and intersect with other forms of systemic oppression. Describe how assets and resilience demonstrated by members of systematically marginalized communities and cultures play a role in dismantling racism and other systems of oppression.