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Abstract: Ecology/environment as master frame Framing and framing processes help us interpret the work of social movements. Master frames function similarly at a larger level, where the interests and actions of various SMOs come together under a larger umbrella. This study follows the changes in the science of ecology and in the conservation and emerging environmental health movements from the late 1940s to 1970 to show how "ecology/environment" came to be a potent master frame. This involved new research in ecology documenting the interdependence of biotic (living) organisms with abiotic matter. Some of these ecologists saw the results of rapid population growth, industrialization and extensive use of new chemicals as posing serious problems for life on Earth. Through the work of these activist ecologists and knowledgeable conservationists interpendence became the fundamental idea for new advocacy. There was a tight network of conservationists who started advocating major changes in federal policies in the late 1940s, including what became the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Ecology/environment provided the attribution functions, elaborated codes that could be amplified and extended, and the potency to be an effective master frame by the mid-1960s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
