Attitudes, Accounts and Impact Assessment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3555948 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kate Burningham (0000-0001-9408-6180, University of Surrey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 100-122 |
| Publication date | 1995-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-954x.1995.tb02480.x |
| OpenAlex | W2085826763 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 11 |
In recent years there has been a growing interest in the sociological study of environmental issues. One area in which this is evident is in the application of social scientific methods in social impact assessment (SIA): the study of the anticipated social impact of proposed changes to the environment. This paper addresses one aspect of the debate about appropriate methods for SIA; whether, and how, to include the expressed views and perceptions of those who will be affected. It is argued first that although SIA ostensibly deals with the social effects of projects there is a tendency for assessments to avoid any detailed consideration of the ways in which people are affected. Instead there is an emphasis upon technical and economic considerations. When assessments do attempt to incorporate the perceptions of local people they typically do so through some form of attitude research. However if language is viewed as a form of social action rather than as a detached commentary on reality there are radical implications for the methods traditionally used in SIA to gauge people's views and attitudes. I conclude by outlining an alternative to the traditional practice of viewing peoples' accounts as a repository of their attitudes, arguing that they might be more profitably used to explore how social impacts are socially constructed
Action (physics) · Epistemology · Perception · Political science · Social impact assessment · Social science · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Environmental and Social Impact Assessments · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Sociology and Environmental Impact Assessment
Attitudes and evaluative practices
Citizen values assessment
Better monitoring for better impact management
Deliberating Animal Values
The Management of Heterosexist Talk
Developments in discursive psychology
Does Information and Deliberation Affect Ecosystem Service Judgments? Evidence from Tree Plantation Expansion in Argentina
Talking With Your Mouth Full
Discursive Social Psychology
A participatory approach to social impact assessment
A Noisy Road or Noisy Resident
Displaying opinions
Construction and Action in Food Evaluation
Retrospective and prospective evaluations of environmental quality under urban renewal as determinants of residents' subjective quality of life
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,52 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2021 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |