2020-2021 Graduate Catalog

SOC 5120 ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE AND SOCIAL RESISTANCE

An examination of the contemporary environmental crisis in the United States and around the world, focusing on its social institutional causes and social constraints on solutions. Emphasis will be placed on economic, political and cultural perspectives on the environmental crisis, analyses of the inequitable distribution of environmental costs and benefits, and social movement challenges to the environmental crisis and environmental inequality.


Credits

3