sociology

The green sociology can be demonstrated by the study of populations that are being affected by climate and political industrial changes. Australian aborigines are extremely connected to their home land and were highly damaged by european acculturation and occidental markets.

How will rising oil prices affect low- and middle-class lives? Sociologist and professor Rowan Wolf sees at-risk populations growing while government services and class divides are increasingly strained. A member of the Portland Peak Oil Task Force, she discusses relocalizing our economies, to counter globalization based on an unsupportable grow-or-die economic model.