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Trinity Tripod, 2011-04-12, Trinity College Apr 2011

Trinity Tripod, 2011-04-12, Trinity College

Trinity Tripod (1904 - present)

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Foreground And Background: Environment As Site And Social Issue [Pre-Print], Susan Opotow, Jen Jack Gieseking Jan 2011

Foreground And Background: Environment As Site And Social Issue [Pre-Print], Susan Opotow, Jen Jack Gieseking

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To examine how the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) has engaged with environmental issues throughout its 75-year history, we consulted five SPSSI-based data sources. Our analysis, attentive to the larger sociopolitical contexts over time, focuses on SPSSI's attention to the physical environment, the places in which social living and interactions occur. In SPSSI's early years, social issues research was often situated within specific locales. Since 1960 and the emergence of environmental psychology and the environmental movement, SPSSI increasing focuses on environment as a social issue in its own right as well part of …