Hiltner Sofia
Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA.
Am Sociol. 2024 Jun 7. doi: 10.1007/s12108-024-09624-4.
Climate change is increasingly recognized as not only a biophysical and technological problem but also a social one. Nonetheless, sociologists have expressed concern that sociology has paid relatively little attention to climate change. This deficit threatens to limit the frames available to understand and imagine solutions to the climate crisis. In this paper I report the most up-to-date and expansive empirical assessment of attention to climate change in sociology in the United States (U.S.). I find little to no mention of climate change across leading sociology journal articles (0.89%), conference sessions (1.5%), and faculty biographies (2.8%) and course listings (0.2%) in the 20 top-ranked departments in the U.S. Two leading journals, the and , have cumulatively published just three articles focused on climate change to date. This level of disciplinary attention appears low compared to the field's engagement with other important social problems. My findings thus suggest that climate silence is persistent and pervasive in U.S. sociology. I discuss the implications of this silence and outline opportunities for sociologists, funders, journalists, and policymakers to embrace social science perspectives in climate change teaching, research, and policymaking.
气候变化日益被视为不仅是一个生物物理和技术问题，也是一个社会问题。尽管如此，社会学家们担心社会学对气候变化的关注相对较少。这种不足可能会限制理解和设想气候危机解决方案的框架。在本文中，我报告了对美国社会学界对气候变化关注的最新且全面的实证评估。我发现，在美国排名前20的顶尖社会学系中，主流社会学期刊文章（0.89%）、会议场次（1.5%）、教师传记（2.8%）以及课程列表（0.2%）中几乎没有提及气候变化。迄今为止，两份顶尖期刊《 》和《 》累计仅发表了三篇关注气候变化的文章。与该领域对其他重要社会问题的参与度相比，这种学科关注度显得较低。因此，我的研究结果表明，在美国社会学中，对气候问题的忽视持续存在且普遍存在。我讨论了这种忽视的影响，并概述了社会学家、资助者、记者和政策制定者在气候变化教学、研究和政策制定中采用社会科学视角的机会。
