TY - JOUR
T1 - Foreground and Background
T2 - Environment as Site and Social Issue
AU - Opotow, Susan
AU - Gieseking, Jen
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011/3
Y1 - 2011/3
N2 - To examine how theSociety for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)has engaged with environmental issues throughout its 75-year history, we consulted fiveSPSSI-based data sources. Our analysis, attentive to the larger sociopolitical contexts over time, focuses onSPSSI's attention to the physical environment, the places in which social living and interactions occur. InSPSSI's early years, social issues research was often situated within specific locales. Since 1960 and the emergence of environmental psychology and the environmental movement,SPSSIincreasing focuses on environment as a social issue in its own right as well part of other social issues. Over time there has been a decline in mentions of the physical environment inSPSSI's methods texts. This historical analysis highlights the specifics of context inSPSSI's environmental research and urges attention to the physical as well as social aspects of environment in research and activism.
AB - To examine how theSociety for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)has engaged with environmental issues throughout its 75-year history, we consulted fiveSPSSI-based data sources. Our analysis, attentive to the larger sociopolitical contexts over time, focuses onSPSSI's attention to the physical environment, the places in which social living and interactions occur. InSPSSI's early years, social issues research was often situated within specific locales. Since 1960 and the emergence of environmental psychology and the environmental movement,SPSSIincreasing focuses on environment as a social issue in its own right as well part of other social issues. Over time there has been a decline in mentions of the physical environment inSPSSI's methods texts. This historical analysis highlights the specifics of context inSPSSI's environmental research and urges attention to the physical as well as social aspects of environment in research and activism.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2010.01691.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2010.01691.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79952658999
SN - 0022-4537
VL - 67
SP - 179
EP - 196
JO - Journal of Social Issues
JF - Journal of Social Issues
IS - 1
ER -