Sociology 233 - Sociology of Climate Change
SOCIOLOGY OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Spring
2020
01
4.00
Vanessa Adel
TTh 10:50-12:05
Smith College
30617-S20
SEELYE 208
vadel@smith.edu
The effects of climate change put great strain on societies, testing the very structures that organize people’s lives and livelihoods. Using sociological frameworks and theories of globalization, inequality, intersectionality, science and technology, policy, migration, sustainability, environmental justice, social movements, and human rights, this course will examine the social, political, and economic impacts of climate change, as well as the ways that local and global groups prepare, mitigate, deny, adapt to, and organize in the face of climate change and its impacts. Prerequisite: SOC 101.Enrollment limited to 35.