The Rise and Decline of Public Interest in Global Warming: Toward a Pragmatic Conception of Environmental ProblemsNova Science Publishers, 2001 - 95 Seiten Even in the face of growing evidence that global warming is a very real threat to human social systems, global warming has received relatively little media coverage. This book explores the possibility that one reason for this limited coverage may be that on a phenomenological level proposed solutions offered for global warming have not provided closure to the loss of taken-for-grantedness associated with the problematic disturbance of the everyday life world brought about by the initial problem claim. This lack of closure manifests itself in both the quantity of global warming media coverage and the types of claims made about global warming. To explore this issue the public arenas model of social problems is extended through a discussion of social action and typification drawn from the phenomenology of Alfred Schutz. A content analysis of the literature about global warming suggests that the types of proposed solutions to global warming in these sources have largely not permitted the taken-for-grantedness of the life world to be maintained. As a result media coverage of global warming has declined over the last twenty years and much of this coverage has been in the form of counter claims resulting in the dismissal of global warming as an issue worthy of public attention. This important book sheds light on the impact of the media on an issue of central interest to humanity. |
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... say that something is " problematic " is to presuppose that there is a state , which can be said to be " unproblematic . " Claims concerning environmental - social problems in everyday life presuppose some unproblematic state of nature ...
... say that something is " problematic " is to presuppose that there is a state , which can be said to be " unproblematic . " Claims concerning environmental - social problems in everyday life presuppose some unproblematic state of nature ...
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... say that an environment with these features does exist , that we confront it daily , and that we formulate our plans according to our understanding of it . This is not to say , however , that we " know " exactly what it is . Even our ...
... say that an environment with these features does exist , that we confront it daily , and that we formulate our plans according to our understanding of it . This is not to say , however , that we " know " exactly what it is . Even our ...
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... says nothing about the " real " nature of whatever we have turned our attention toward , only that it has become an object in our consciousness . The problem of understanding what is actually contained in our consciousness is a problem ...
... says nothing about the " real " nature of whatever we have turned our attention toward , only that it has become an object in our consciousness . The problem of understanding what is actually contained in our consciousness is a problem ...
Inhalt
The Epistemology of Global Warming | 15 |
Social Problems and the TakenForGranted | 35 |
Proposed Solutions and Counter Claims | 47 |
Urheberrecht | |
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action Alfred Schutz analysis Annual Number argued carbon dioxide Chinook salmon claim global warming Climate Change common sense compete for attention conservatism counter claims discourse discussion environment environmental movement environmental sociology environmental-social problem claim epistemological exist experiential process formulations global warming coverage grantedness Hilgartner and Bosk human exceptionalism impact important interest in global IPCC Jonathan Weiner large-scale environmental problems life-world loss of taken-for-grantedness media coverage natural pragmatism nonpackageable solutions Number of Proposed ozone depletion packageable solutions perspective phenomenological potential powerful actors pretheoretical problematic process of experience proposed solutions public arenas model public attention public opinion purposes at hand realist reality record heat remediation Schutz Science scientists social actors social construction social problem claim sociology solutions to global Spector and Kitsuse stock of knowledge suggest systems of relevance taken-for taken-for-grantedness associated theoretical Thomason turn our attention Ungar United Press International unproblematic Western Fuels Association Wilmoth and Ball wire reports
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