In this lecture, Dr. Riley Dunlap presents a summary of the history and major approaches taken by environmental sociology in studying environmental concern, and the attitudes and beliefs on behaviors that reflect environmental concern. He discusses the historic use of survey research to measure and predict environmental concern through environmental attitudes and action. He then highlights a framework for understanding how to change environmental attitudes and behaviors, and notes that each identifies a different fix for environmental problems. He extends these frameworks to identify relationships between environmental attitudes, beliefs and values, and notes that contemporary research separates the environmental and concern parts of environmental concern. He then presents several examples of statistical and conceptual models that depict causal pathways for how environmental concern is generated.
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