Research Progress on the Sociology of Climate Change and Its Significance in China
Global climate change and related actions have profound impacts on human behaviors,social structures and social processes.Accordingly,the sociology of climate change emerged.It studies the mechanisms of the interactions between climate change and society and has made important progress.At present,the sociological studies of climate change mainly focus on five topics:the role of social sciences in climate change research,adaptation and mitigation,climate change inequality,global climate governance,and methodology innovation.This paper teases out the sociology of climate change in China and points out the opportunities and challenges of this discipline.As a discipline with infinite prospects,the sociology of climate change needs to be further developed.