环境身份:国外环境社会学研究的新视角

Environmental Identity: A New Perspective of Foreign Environmental Sociology Research

环境身份作为环境行为的影响因素已经成为国外学界关注的理论焦点。本文考察了环境身份的起源与内涵,阐述了其从心理学到社会学的演变路径,并就环境身份的测量方法进行了梳理,指出了社会学学者更为关注环境身份的类型化及结构性,并构建了多样化的环境身份测量方法,凸显了社会学意义的环境身份研究。而且也强调指出,环境身份可以直接或间接地预测环境行为,并对环境运动的发生具有积极的促进作用。环境身份研究推进了环境社会学的实证研究领域,但也存在着测量方法主观化,综合研究方法运用不足及缺乏社会结构因素等问题,这也是今后应当进一步加强的方向。

As the influence factors of environment behavior,environmental identity has become an foreign academe focus.This paper examines the origin and connotation of environmental identity,then illustrates the evolution path from psychology to sociology.And this paper teases the measurement method of environmental identity, points out the type and structure of environmental identity to which Sociology scholars pay more attention,builts a variety of measurement method of environmental identity,highlights the environmental identity research of sociological significance.This paper also points out that the environment identity can directly or indirectly predict environmental behavior and there is a mutual constructive relationship with environmental movement.Environmental identity research promotes the empirical study of environmental sociology,but there is a subjective measurement method,lack of synthetic research method and social structure factors,we should further strengthen the direction in the future.