Umweltsoziologie

What role do patterns of thinking and consumption, innovations and infrastructures play both in the emergence of environmental problems and in the way society deals with them? How do environmental attitudes and risk perceptions differ between social groups? And how does all this relate to the diagnosis that the relationship to nature in modern societies is not sustainable? Based on these questions, the introduction to environmental sociology explains what the ecological crisis means from a sociological perspective. It introduces the central questions and theories of environmental sociology and discusses what contribution the discipline can make to overcoming the challenges of the Anthropocene.