Key Topics in environmental sociology, 1990–2014: results from a computational text analysis

Bohr, Jeremiah; Dunlap, Riley E.

doi:10.1080/23251042.2017.1393863

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“…If we consider environmental sociology as a field, however, environmental justice studies are markedly less prevalent. Bohr and Dunlap's (2018) recent metaanalysis of thematic trends in relevant articles published in all sociology journals included in the Social Sciences Citation Index from 1990 to 2014 suggests that environmental justice scholarship is, in fact, relatively marginal. Bohr and Dunlap's analysis identifies environmental concern, climate change, theorization of environmental sociology and comparative political economy as the leading topics for environmental sociology followed by agriculture and then environmental inequality.…”

Section: Innovation In Environmental Justice Research?mentioning

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Privilege and responsibility in environmental justice research

Lockie

2018

Environmental Sociology

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Section: Innovation In Environmental Justice Research?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Privilege and responsibility in environmental justice research

Lockie

2018

Environmental Sociology

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“…Environmental concern has become an increasingly prominent area of research, as indicated by Jeremiah Bohr and Riley E. Dunlap’s (2018) review of key topics in environmental sociology between 1990 and 2014. They found environmental concern to be the most prevalent topic in the corpus.…”

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Social Capital’s Influence on Environmental Concern in China: An Analysis of the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey

Feng

Michaels

Bell

2019

Sociological Perspectives

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This study examines the ways in which social capital influences people’s environmental concern in China. Using data obtained from the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey, we measure social capital through social networks and trust. We find that the ways people think about and act toward others influence the ways they think about and act toward the environment. The structural equation modeling results suggest that one’s connections with others, including socializing with relatives and friends as well as general social networking, are significantly and positively related to various dimensions of environmental concern. Greater trust is positively related to one’s willingness to make sacrifices for the benefit of the environment but is also negatively related to perceived dangerousness of pollution. Our findings highlight the value of social capital in promoting environmental concern. We discuss these findings in the context of existing literature, and propose policy implications and suggest directions for future research.

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“…The correlations between topics reveal how topics correlate with one another through co-occurrence at the document level (Roberts et al, 2014a). This assists in getting a sense of how likely a single document discusses any given set of topics (Bohr and Dunlap, 2018). In this study, as mentioned in the research methodology section, the information on correlations of topics has provided additional evidence for the inference pertaining to the prevalence of topics.…”

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Trends and Foundations in Research on Students’ Conceptual Understanding in Science Education: A Method Based on the Structural Topic Model

2020

JBSE

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This study aims to reveal the trends and foundations in research on students’ conceptual understanding in science education. The literature was selected from three recognized journals in science education. The Structural Topic Model (STM) method was used to categorize articles into ten topics considering information about the semantic cohesion and exclusivity of words to topics. The topic, which has attracted increasing research interest, was selected using a method similar to standard regression analysis, and its changing focus was identified through an analysis of its research contents. Foundations of research about students’ conceptual understanding between 1980–1999 and 2000–2019 were obtained through a review of their top 10 most-cited papers. Three conclusions were drawn: a) there were ten sub-topics of research about students’ conceptual understanding; b) the research on the development (or pathways) of students’ scientific argumentation/reasoning is likely to attract further interest in the future; and c) compared to the studies in the first period, the studies in the second stage favor research on the description (nature, mental process, etc.) of the process of students’ conceptual understanding as the research foundation. Keywords: conceptual understanding, journal publication, structural topic model, text mining.

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Key Topics in environmental sociology, 1990–2014: results from a computational text analysis

Cited by 74 publications

References 116 publications

Privilege and responsibility in environmental justice research

Privilege and responsibility in environmental justice research

Social Capital’s Influence on Environmental Concern in China: An Analysis of the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey

Trends and Foundations in Research on Students’ Conceptual Understanding in Science Education: A Method Based on the Structural Topic Model

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