Environmental Sociology - American Sociological Association

Ross Gelbspan, The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription
Sept. 25 4) Ethical Issues Surrounding Environmental Problems
Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People (in 4 Major Plays)
Case studies from the Collaborative Initiative for Research in Environmental Health:
-Steve Wing, “Social Responsibility and Research Ethics in Community Driven
Studies of Industrialized Hog Production in North Carolina” (R)
-Linda Silka, “Rituals and Research Ethics: Using One Community’s Experience
to Reconsider the Ways that Communities and Researchers Build Sustainable
Partnerships” (R)
-Alison Kole and Doug Brugge, “Exploring Community-Based Research Ethics
Case Study: Healthy Public Housing Initiative” (R)
Oct. 2 5) Natural Resources, Energy, and Politics
William Freudenburg and Robert Gramling, Oil in Troubled Waters: Perception, Politics,
and the Battle over Offshore Drilling
Oct. 9 6) Toxic Waste, Pollution, and Community Organizing
Phil Brown and Edwin Mikkelsen, No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and
Community Action
Oct. 16 7) Environmental Justice – A Burgeoning Social Movement
J. Timmons Roberts and Melissa Toffolon-Weiss, Chronicles from the Environmental
Justice Frontline
Oct. 23 8) Environmental Issues and General Political Democracy
William Shutkin, The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the
Twenty-First Century
Oct. 30 9) Multidisciplinary Approaches to Chemicals and Disease
Sandra Steingraber, Living Downstream : A Scientist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer
and the Environment
Nov. 6 10) Pollution, Disease, and Corporate Power
Devra Davis, When Smoke Ran Like Water: Unnecessary Death and Environmental
Deception
Devra Davis, guest lecturer
Nov. 13 11) Ongoing Research in Health and the Environment – Breast Cancer and Health Social
Movements
Sabrina McCormick, Julia Brody, and Phil Brown, “Lay Involvement in Breast Cancer
Research” (R)
Sabrina McCormick and Phil Brown, “The Personal Is Scientific, The Scientific Is
Political: The Environmental Breast Cancer Movement” (R)
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