http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/2236130813820This monograph-based paper on the sociology of climate change in the context of life experiences is mostly a reflection exercise on how individual behaviour and life opportunities are affected by the structures of the society we live in. To place this in context, we start with an introduction to climate change issues. We then present the main focus of our work, which is divided into two parts: the first one is more theoretical and examines the significance of the socialisation processes for the social and environmental development and for climate change issues, a major environmental concern in the 21st century; the second one is based on a case study - the author’s own life – and reflects upon the power he feels he has within the structures he moves in, and of his own, as well as on the individual influence he thinks he can have within these social structures. We come to the conclusion that his interaction with the social structure and his individual action as regards climate change have been influential in the attitudes of people around him, which means that the world can be better and everything depends on us (on our agency).
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