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Learning Objectives. Explain the implications of culture on social status and stratification. Summarize the mechanisms used by dominant groups to develop and sustain cultural power. Understand cultural hegemony. Describe the consequences of social conflicts over cultural power.
Running through the MA is an overarching aim to equip you with both critical and practical expertise in environment-society relations, with a firm eye on developing your abilities to influence policy formulation and implementation in a range of interventionary contexts.
11 wrz 2024 · Students should expect to engage with theoretical material and deconstruct some of the basic assumptions underpinning terms like ‘society’, ‘governance’, ‘environment’ and ‘nature’ to develop conceptual tools to understand contemporary global change.
7 mar 2021 · Power is one of the most contested concepts in social and political theory. This paper discusses seven prevailing points of contestation: Power over versus power to, centred versus diffused, consensual versus conflictual, constraining versus enabling, quantity versus quality, empowerment versus disempowerment and power in relation to knowledge.
Analyse substantive environmental problems, such as biodiversity loss and micro-plastic pollution, from a social scientific perspective and examine and discuss key issues of environmental justice. Evaluate policies and initiatives addressing societal transitions towards sustainability.
22 sie 2022 · Appealing to individuals to tackle environmental challenges, for example by choosing products that are deemed to be less harmful to the environment, is not only ineffective in terms of power, reach and social complexity; it can also lead to perverse consequences, as when consumers are urged to purchase ‘green’ products such as electric cars ...
This chapter discusses the sources of modern social order by dissecting the issue of power at three levels of analysis in descending order: macro, meso, and micro.
