SGER: Workshop: Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change

SES-0744020琼·内格尔杰弗里·布罗德韦尔托马斯·迪茨堪萨斯大学国际关系学院寻求支持，以召开一个关于“全球气候变化的社会学视角”的研讨会。“这次研讨会是首次努力系统地让社会学家参与这一紧迫的全球关注问题。 研讨会的目标是阐明社会学的潜在基础科学贡献，什么是国家科学院已确定为21世纪世纪的重大挑战之一-了解气候变化的人类层面。社会学家有一系列的理论观点和方法论工具，可以用来研究这个问题。 研讨会将汇集正在研究气候变化问题的社会学家以及从事相关主题工作但尚未涉及与气候有关的全球变化问题的社会学家。 PI还计划邀请非社会学家谁是气候研究的人类层面的主要领导者，以帮助社会学界正在进行的努力和重要机构联系起来。2008年研讨会设想通过制定研究议程开展能力建设，该议程将：（1）确定关于气候变化和气候变化相关专题的现有社会学知识的核心领域和差距;（2）促进从事气候相关研究的社会学家之间的互动与合作;（3）促进关于全球气候变化原因和后果的新的社会学研究;（4）阐明了将社会学视角纳入跨学科气候变化研究的潜力。 研讨会的与会者将突出挑战和机会，社会学家从事两个学科和跨学科的研究气候变化，并在这样做扩大了社会学和其他学者谁研究全球气候变化的数量和视角研讨会解决了一个领域，社会学家以前没有进行重大的研究。 例如，美国社会学协会（阿萨）2007年年会的计划列出了一个关于全球气候变化的会议。 计划在阿萨举行的未来会议以及研讨会论文和会议记录的传播将突出社会学对全球气候变化研究的重要性和潜在贡献。 讲习班的广泛影响有三个方面。 具体而言，会议将（1）提高社会学进行气候变化研究的能力，（2）推动研究，为解决具有历史意义的全球问题做出贡献，（3）扩大社会学参与有关全球气候变化的跨学科研究和教育。 简而言之，它将有助于加强社会学研究，帮助为有关气候变化的科学和政策辩论提供信息。

SES- 0744020Joan NagelJeffery BroadbentThomas DietzUniversity of KansasThe PIs seek support to convene a workshop on "Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change." This workshop represents a first effort to systematically engage sociologists on this issue of pressing global concern. The goal of the workshop is to articulate Sociology's potential basic scientific contributions to what the National Academy of Sciences has identified as one of grand challenges of the 21st century--understanding the human dimensions of climate change. Sociologists have an array of theoretical perspectives and methodological tools that can be bought to bear on the subject. The workshop would bring together sociologists who are addressing climate change in their research as well as sociologists, who work on related topics, but have not yet engaged questions of climate-related global change. The PIs also plan to invite non-sociologists who are key leader in human dimensions of climate research to help link the sociological community to ongoing efforts and important agencies. The 2008 workshop envisions capacity building through the development of a research agenda that: (1) identifies core areas of and gaps in established sociological knowledge about climate change and topics related to climate change; (2) facilitates interaction and collaboration among sociologists working on climate-related research, (3) catalyzes new sociological research on the causes and consequences of global climate change; and (4) articulates the potential for the incorporation of sociological perspective in interdisciplinary climate change research. Workshop participants will spotlight challenges and opportunities for sociologists to engage in both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research on climate change and in doing so broaden the number and perspectives of sociological and other scholars who study global climate changeThe workshop addresses an area in which sociologists have not previously conducted significant research. For example, the program for the 2007 annual meetings of the American Sociological Association (ASA) lists one session on global climate change. Planned future sessions at ASA and the dissemination of workshop papers and proceedings will highlight both the importance, and potential contributions of sociology to the study of global climate change. The workshop's broader impacts are threefold. Specifically, the meeting will (1) increase sociology's capacity to conduct climate change research, (2) motivate research that contributes solutions to a global problem of historical importance and (3) expand sociological participation in interdisciplinary research and education about global climate change. In short, it will contribute to enhanced sociological research to help inform scientific and policy debates about climate change.