A recent University of Michigan study reveals a gap in sociology: the lack of focus on climate change. Societies are driving this crisis and dealing with its consequences, but sociology as a discipline appears to be under-engaged in the issue, says Sofia Hiltner, a PhD student in sociology at the University whose research is published in\u00a0The American Sociologist<\/i>\u00a0.<\/p>\n
The study points to the critical need for a sociological perspective on the fight against climate change. There is no mention in leading sociology journal articles (0.9 %), conference proceedings (1.5 %), faculty biographies (2.8 %), and course listings at leading US departments (0.2 %) about climate change.<\/p>\n
"This deficit threatens the importance of sociology for human well-being. It also limits our understanding of the climate crisis as a social problem and our ability to imagine responses," said Hiltner, a predoctoral fellow at the Center for Population Studies at the Institute for Social Research. (Tevah Platt, University of Michigan, more at phys.org<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A recent study by the University of Michigan exposes a gap in sociology: a lack of focus on climate change. Societies are driving this crisis and confronting its consequences, but sociology as a discipline seems under-engaged in the issue, says Sofia Hiltner, a doctoral candidate in sociology at the university whose research is published in The American Sociologist. The study highlights the critical need for a sociological perspective on the fight against [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}