Sociology has been slow in responding to the challenge of climate change. In this conversation, we advocate adding more climate change content to Introduction to Sociology courses. To support our arguments, we present data from a content analysis of the top 11 best-selling introductory textbooks in the United States, demonstrating that environmental concerns are usually relegated to the end of books, which provide little (and sometime errant) content. Climate change gets even less attention, and there has been little change to textbook content over time. To correct such deficiencies, we suggest instructors free climate change from its current position as “a subfield of a subfield” and interweave the issue with all content areas in the curriculum. Our conversation concludes by considering how climate change can be featured in the curriculum of introductory courses as well as in the pedagogies presented at the introductory level.

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现在是在我们的社会学课程介绍中添加更多气候变化社会学的时候了

社会学在应对气候变化挑战方面进展缓慢。在本次对话中，我们主张在《社会学概论》课程中添加更多气候变化内容。为了支持我们的论点，我们提供了对美国前 11 名最畅销入门教科书的内容分析的数据，表明环境问题通常被归结到书的末尾，这些书提供的内容很少（有时是错误的）。气候变化受到的关注更少，而且随着时间的推移，教科书内容几乎没有变化。为了纠正这些缺陷，我们建议教师将气候变化从目前作为“一个子领域的一个子领域”的立场中解放出来，并将该问题与课程中的所有内容领域交织在一起。