SOCY 3141
Understanding environmental problems; identifying stakeholders; understanding core interests; procedural fairness; escalation control; justifying aspirations; negotiation/consensus building; administrative procedures limits of negotiations; public education/grassroots organization; general approaches to environmental policy; of general applicability to environmental problems.
The philosophical foundations, new values, motivations for joining, leadership, strategies, organization dynamics, public response, and reasons for success and failure of social movements are the primary foci. A look at organized attempts to contest traditional ideas and values regarding the relationship og human organization and activities to various movements.