Limited Attention to Climate Change in U.S. Sociology.

ABSTRACT: Climate change is increasingly recognized as not only a biophysical and technological problem but also a social one. Nonetheless, sociologists have expressed concern that sociology has paid relatively little attention to climate change. This deficit threatens to limit the frames available to understand and imagine solutions to the climate crisis. In this paper I report the most up-to-date and expansive empirical assessment of attention to climate change in sociology in the United States (U.S.). I find little to no mention of climate change across leading sociology journal articles (0.89%), conference sessions (1.5%), and faculty biographies (2.8%) and course listings (0.2%) in the 20 top-ranked departments in the U.S. Two leading journals, the American Sociological Review and Ame

SUBMITTER: Hiltner S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12393807 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature