DOI: 10.1002/wcc.417
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84977079444
论文题名: Developing a critical agenda to understand pro-environmental actions: contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories
作者: Batel S ; , Castro P ; , Devine-Wright P ; , Howarth C
刊名: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
ISSN: 17577780
出版年: 2016
卷: 7, 期: 5 起始页码: 727
结束页码: 745
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Technology
; Different stages
; Environmental action
; Individual levels
; Potential synergies
; Social practices
; Social psychology
; Social representations
; Sustainable society
; Sustainable development
; environmental planning
; psychology
; social behavior
; social change
; social movement
; theoretical study
英文摘要: Debates over the value and compatibility of different approaches to understanding and changing environmental-relevant actions proliferate across the social sciences. This article reviews and discusses some of the (socio-)psychological and sociological approaches in those debates. We will start by critically reviewing the (socio-)psychological perspectives, highlighting two main shortcomings. First, they are often partial in their focus—concentrating on the consumption side of climate-relevant actions and, relatedly in changing these actions at the individual level. They tend to assume that individual change equates to social change and, with that, fail to contextualize ‘anti’-environmental actions in current neoliberal, capitalist societies. Second, they usually present the mainstream (socio-)psychological approaches, which are ontologically individualistic and cognitive, as the only existent ones, therefore neglecting other perspectives within Social Psychology which might actually be (more) compatible with sociological perspectives. We then suggest that Social Representations Theory (SRT), as an ontologically social-psychological approach and a theory of social change, might be reconciled with sociological approaches, such as Social Practices Theory (SPT), in contrast to the more individualistic (socio-)psychological perspectives. After reviewing the main tenets of SRT, its discrepancies and potential synergies with SPT, we discuss how both can be articulated to understand different stages of the social change process toward more environmentally sustainable societies. While SPT might be more suitable to understand stability or how some actions become habitual, SRT might be better equipped to understand how those change, or how individuals and groups negotiate new actions with old ones. WIREs Clim Change 2016, 7:727–745. doi: 10.1002/wcc.417. For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/76212
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作者单位: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Cis-IUL, Lisboa, Portugal; Department of Geography, University of Exeter, United Kingdom; Department of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, London, United Kingdom
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Batel S,, Castro P,, Devine-Wright P,et al. Developing a critical agenda to understand pro-environmental actions: contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories[J]. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,2016-01-01,7(5)