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- Title
Social Issues and Personal Life: Considering the Environment.
- Authors
Clayton, Susan
- Abstract
As an organization that promotes socially relevant research, SPSSI encourages psychologists to engage in individual behaviors-their research activities-that are connected to issues of social interest. Thus, it can be argued that one of SPSSI's goals is to strengthen the connection between social issues and personal life, broadly defined. Some of the most urgent and salient social issues currently revolve around the natural environment, climate change in particular. This is an issue which many people do not connect to their personal lives. In this article, after briefly explaining why environmental issues should be considered social issues, I discuss the way in which environmental issues relate to personal life, and use environmental issues to explore the connection between social issues and personal life. I argue that the ability to make this connection involves cognitive processes such as systems thinking, and encourage more research in this area.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SOCIAL action; LIFE -- Social aspects; SOCIETY for the Psychological Study of Social Issues; PSYCHOLOGISTS; HUMAN ecology; PSYCHOLOGICAL research; ENVIRONMENTALISM -- Social aspects; ENVIRONMENTALISM; SYSTEMS theory; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Journal of Social Issues, 2017, Vol 73, Issue 3, p667
- ISSN
0022-4537
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/josi.12237