Sociological analysis of the role of social movements in the formation of environmental policies

Ebrahimi Onbirbiglo, Saeed; Yousefi Joybari, Mohammad; Dehghani Firouzabadi, Seyyed Jamaluddin

doi:10.30495/jss.2023.1975660.1527

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Sociological analysis of the role of social movements in the formation of environmental policies

Saeed Ebrahimi Onbirbiglo ¹ ( Ph.D. student of International Relations, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz branch, Tabriz, Iran )
Mohammad Yousefi Joybari ² ( Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz branch, Tabriz, Iran. Corresponding author: yousefijouybari@iaut.ac.ir )
Seyyed Jamaluddin Dehghani Firouzabadi ³ ( Professor of the Department of International Relations, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran-Iran )

Submited date : 2022-11-15 Accepted date : 2023-01-16

Keywords: environment, social movements, environmental movements,

Abstract :

One of the most important dimensions of quality of life is safety and environmental health. Today, the issue of the environment has gained an important place in the public sphere and discourse or public opinion, and environmental movements have become one of the most important and strongest social movements and have had an impact on the decision-making process. These movements have been able to have decisive effects on other actors and on decisions, despite being very limited in terms of material power sources. The main goal of these movements is to develop environmental discourses and link environmental issues to societies that have achieved significant success in this way. In general, the theoretical debate about social movements has been significantly highlighted since the 1960s. The growth of the theoretical debate about how to understand and recognize social movements was a reaction to the growth and expansion of these movements within developed societies. The role of social movements in influencing environmental policies is significant and these movements have many abilities in this field. The attention of most governments, organizations, researchers and scientists has been drawn to the role of these movements, and this means the influence of social movements on environmental policies.

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