In January, 2016, distinguished scholars from the field of Environmental Sociology gathered at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) in Annapolis, Maryland as part of the 2015-2016 Socio-Environmental Immersion Program.
Sociologists Lori Peek, Andrew Jorgenson, Riley Dunlap, Tom Rudel, and Dana Fisher at the SESYNC Immersion Workshop
The Immersion Program focuses on the diverse scholarly traditions, research methods, and theories that make up socio-environmental science. Designed for a diverse interdisciplinary group of early career scholars including SESYNC postdoctoral fellows and researchers from a range of other postdoctoral positions and doctoral programs across the US (PSE Fellow Anya M. Galli is a member in the 2015-2016 cohort), the Immersion Program consists of five collaborative workshops led by top scholars from ecology, economics, sociology, anthropology, and the science of global change. According to the program website, “the workshops are designed to immerse participants in theories and methods foundational to understanding current environmental challenges and their underlying S-E systems.” Scholars’ lectures are live-streamed on the SESYNC website and posted online.
Visiting scholars with Sociologists participating in the SESYNC Immersion (Kristal Jones, SESYNC ; Heather Randell, Brown University; and Anya Galli, University of Maryland) and Immersion Mentor Simone Pulver, University of California Santa Barbara
Scholars presenting at the Sociology Workshop represented a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives from the field of Environmental Sociology.
All videos from the Sociology lectures can be viewed on YouTube.
Dana R. Fisher, PSE Director and Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, discussed theories of environmental sociology and presented her mixed-methods research on social movements and civil society participation. Lori Peek, Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis at Colorado State University, kicked off the workshop with an engaging discussion addressing the question “what is Sociology?” Later in the Workshop, Peek presented her work on risk, vulnerability, and resilience in post-disaster communities. Tom Rudel, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Human Ecology and Sociology at Rutgers University, provided an overview of the “founding fathers” of Sociology and the connections between classical theory and the study of socio-environmental problems. Rudel also presented on using spatial methods to study coupled human-natural systems. Andrew Jorgenson, Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at Boston College, gave participants a sweeping overview of the broad range of methods that make up the tool kit of sociological research. Jorgenson presented later in the Workshop on the use of longitudinal and multi-level methods to study globalization and development as they relate to the environment. Riley Dunlap, Regents Professor and Laurence L. and Georgia Ina Dresser Professor in the Department of Sociology at Oklahoma State University, presented on the development of the study of the environment in Sociology as well as on his research on public attitudes toward the environment.
All videos from the Sociology lectures can be viewed on YouTube.
Dana R. Fisher, PSE Director and Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, discussed theories of environmental sociology and presented her mixed-methods research on social movements and civil society participation. Lori Peek, Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis at Colorado State University, kicked off the workshop with an engaging discussion addressing the question “what is Sociology?” Later in the Workshop, Peek presented her work on risk, vulnerability, and resilience in post-disaster communities. Tom Rudel, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Human Ecology and Sociology at Rutgers University, provided an overview of the “founding fathers” of Sociology and the connections between classical theory and the study of socio-environmental problems. Rudel also presented on using spatial methods to study coupled human-natural systems. Andrew Jorgenson, Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at Boston College, gave participants a sweeping overview of the broad range of methods that make up the tool kit of sociological research. Jorgenson presented later in the Workshop on the use of longitudinal and multi-level methods to study globalization and development as they relate to the environment. Riley Dunlap, Regents Professor and Laurence L. and Georgia Ina Dresser Professor in the Department of Sociology at Oklahoma State University, presented on the development of the study of the environment in Sociology as well as on his research on public attitudes toward the environment.
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