Climate Silence in Sociology? How Elite American Sociology, Environmental Sociology, and Science and Technology Studies Treat Climate Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2363768 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claudine Scoville (0000-0003-2797-0018, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA, corresponding author), A Mccumber (0000-0002-0048-8048, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 888-913 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0731-1214 • E-ISSN: 1533-8673 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/07311214231180554 |
| OpenAlex | W4383621572 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 41 |
Climate change is among the most pressing problems of our time, yet it remains a marginal topic in sociology. This study draws on citation network analysis, qualitative coding, and computational text analysis of articles published between 2015 and 2020 in select journals in U.S. elite sociology, environmental sociology, and science and technology studies (STS) to better understand differences and similarities in how these (sub)fields approach-or ignore-climate change. We map the structural relations of the research on climate change in these (sub)fields and analyze patterns in the substantive and theoretical engagement with the topic. Building on our analysis, we conclude by suggesting potential paths for stimulating further climate change research at the intersection of environmental sociology and STS and to propose tentative strategies for researchers to bring climate change into the sociological mainstream
Climate change · Climate science · Elite · Environmental sociology · Epistemology · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Silence · Social science · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Ecology
“No research on a dead planet”
Visualizing the Rise of Authoritarian Carbon (1992–2022)
Structures of feeling in climate fiction
From a normal and a post-normal science ethos towards a survival science ethos
Limited Attention to Climate Change in U.S. Sociology
How Do You Interview a River? Translating the Social Role of Natural Entities
Subnational Environmental Policy
Science in action
Emile Durkheim
Science as Practice and Culture
Evaluation methods for topic models
Graph drawing by force‐directed placement
W.E.B. Du Bois and interdisciplinarity
The Rules of Sociological Method
Environmental Expertise as Group Belonging
Sub-disciplining science in sociology
From fringe to core? The integration of environmental sociology
Crossing the ‘great divide’ in practice
What is environmental racism for? Place-based harm and relational development
Key Topics in environmental sociology, 1990–2014
Sociology, environment, and modernity
Anti-Latour
We Have Never Been Modern
Incorporating nature in environmental sociology
Beyond the nature/society divide
Social Theory and Social Structure
Actor-Network Theory and methodology
A New Ecological Paradigm for Post-Exuberant Sociology
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation
Politics of Nature
Law and Corporate Malfeasance in Neoliberal India
The racial fix and environmental state formation
Climate change in sociology
Global Warming and Sociology
Here and Everywhere
The Social Consequences of Disasters
Sociology and the Climate Crisis
Climate Change and Society
Climate Change and Migration
Weber and the Environment
Why Is Classical Theory Classical
Marx's Theory of Metabolic Rift
Ajurisdiction
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |