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Culture, Carbon, and Climate Change : = A Class Analysis of Climate Change Belief, Lifestyle Lock-in, and Personal Carbon Footprints.

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Title/Author:	Culture, Carbon, and Climate Change :/
Reminder of title:	A Class Analysis of Climate Change Belief, Lifestyle Lock-in, and Personal Carbon Footprints.
Author:	Boucher, Jean Leon.
Description:	1 online resource (311 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-01(E), Section: A.
Subject:	Sociology. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781339930251

Culture, Carbon, and Climate Change : = A Class Analysis of Climate Change Belief, Lifestyle Lock-in, and Personal Carbon Footprints.
Boucher, Jean Leon.

Culture, Carbon, and Climate Change :A Class Analysis of Climate Change Belief, Lifestyle Lock-in, and Personal Carbon Footprints. - 1 online resource (311 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--George Mason University, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references

Global climate change is arguably the defining issue of our present age, and carbon emissions are the major cause of this change. Prior research has shown that carbon emissions are strongly positively associated with household incomes---both in a given nation and between nations. Scholars explain that one of the root causes of this "income-carbon" relationship is lifestyle lock-in: the inability of individuals to change their consumption habits---due to institutionalized structures, contexts, and norms. This inability is also related to what researchers refer to as the attitude-behavior gap: where behaviors do not align with attitudes. Specifically, my research explores these phenomena by testing whether climate change beliefs moderate the income-carbon relationship.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781339930251Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Sociology.
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Electronic books.

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520 $a Global climate change is arguably the defining issue of our present age, and carbon emissions are the major cause of this change. Prior research has shown that carbon emissions are strongly positively associated with household incomes---both in a given nation and between nations. Scholars explain that one of the root causes of this "income-carbon" relationship is lifestyle lock-in: the inability of individuals to change their consumption habits---due to institutionalized structures, contexts, and norms. This inability is also related to what researchers refer to as the attitude-behavior gap: where behaviors do not align with attitudes. Specifically, my research explores these phenomena by testing whether climate change beliefs moderate the income-carbon relationship.
520 $a Due to a desire to both test and generate theory, I took a mixed methods approach: quantitative and qualitative. Quantitatively, I used a secondary source of nationally representative data (N=2107) to compare household income, climate change attitudes, and individual carbon footprints (I only examine emissions for personal mobility and dietary carbon footprints). For the qualitative portion of this research, I conducted (N=28) in-depth interviews of climate change activists with high household incomes (over $100,000/year); I identified these activists by using a screener questionnaire in the Washington, DC, area. From the quantitative analysis, I found a significant positive correlation between climate change related attitudes and personal carbon footprint only among one segment of the public---those who are most concerned about climate change (18% of my sample). Additionally, the majority of my in-depth interview respondents had preexisting cognitive structures---they were psychologically and behaviorally predisposed---upon which climate change beliefs were attached. I also reaffirm the significant positive relationship between household income and carbon emissions---income was the most dominant predictor variable in my analyses, but I argue against a supposed attitude-behavior gap. The "gap" appears to be a measurement issue: if scholars captured a larger portion of an individual's primary concerns then measured attitudes and behaviors would align. I call for taxes and limits on both income and carbon emissions. Additionally, if carbon emissions were somehow rendered more socially visible, I believe that social forces themselves could help limit individual carbon footprints.
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