Social Creatures: A Human and Animal Studies Reader

by Clifton R. Flynn PhD (Editor)

Overview

Other-than-human animals are an overwhelming presence in our collective and individual lives and, at the same time, are taken for granted by human animals. Sociologists have neglected the study of human-animal interaction and the role of animals in society. This is true, despite the fact that animals are an integral part of our lives: in our language, food, families, economy, education, science, and recreation. In more than thirty essays, Social Creatures examines the role of animals in human society. Collected from a wide range of periodicals and books, these important works of scholarship examine such issues as how animal shelter workers view the pets in their care, why some people hoard animals, animals and women who experience domestic abuse, philosophical and feminist analyses of our moral obligations toward animals, and many other topics. Social Creatures includes work by Peter Singer, Tom Regan, Carol J. Adams, Josephine Donovan, Barbara Noske, Arnold Arluke, Ken Shapiro, and many leading scholars, anthropologists, and psychologists. The book also comes with an extensive bibliography of hundreds of articles and books.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590561232
Publisher:	Lantern Publishing & Media
Publication date:	06/15/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Clifton P. Flynn is provost, senior vice chancellor for academic affairs and professor of sociology at the University of South Carolina Upstate. He earned his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and has been at USC Upstate since 1988. He has also served as chair of the Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Women’s Studies (2008–2013), as well as associate vice chancellor for academic affairs (2013–2015).

Table of Contents

Social Creatures: An Introduction   Clifton P. Flynn     xiii
An Emerging Field     1
Introduction to Human-Animal Studies   Kenneth J. Shapiro     3
The Zoological Connection: Animal-related Human Behavior   Clifton Bryant     7
The Animal Question in Anthropology   Barbara Noske     22
Studying Human-Animal Relationships     29
Understanding Dogs through Kinesthetic Empathy, Social Construction, and History   Kenneth J. Shapiro     31
Future Directions in Human-Animal Bond Research   Alan M. Beck   Aaron H. Katcher     49
Understanding Dogs: Caretakers' Attributions of Mindedness in Canine-Human Relationships   Clinton R. Sanders     59
Historical and Comparative Perspectives     75
Speciesism, Anthropocentrism, and Non-Western Cultures   Barbara Noske     77
The Anthropology of Conscience   Michael Tobias     88
The Emergence of Modern Pet-keeping   Harriet Ritvo     96
Animals and Culture     107
Animal Rights as Religious Vision   Andrew Linzey     109
The Power of Play   Leslie Irvine     117
There's Not Enough Room to Swing a Dead Cat and There's NoUse Flogging a Dead Horse   Tracey Smith-Harris     130
Attitudes toward Other Animals     137
Gender, Sex-role Orientation and Attitudes toward Animals   Harold Herzog   Nancy S. Betchart   Robert B. Pittman     139
Childhood Pet Keeping and Humane Attitudes in Young Adulthood   Elizabeth S. Paul   James A. Serpell     149
Animal Rights and Human Social Issues   David Nibert     161
Criminology and Deviance     169
Children Who Are Cruel to Animals: A Review of Research and Implications for Developmental Psychology   Frank R. Ascione     171
Childhood Cruelty to Animals and Subsequent Violence against Humans   Linda Merz-Perez   Kathleen M. Heide   Ira J. Silverman     190
Woman's Best Friend: Pet Abuse and the Role of Companion Animals in the Lives of Battered women   Clifton P. Flynn     207
Hoarding of Animals: An Under-recognized Public Health Problem in a Difficult-to-study Population   Gary J. Patronek     220
Inequality-Interconnected Oppressions     231
An Historical Understanding   Marjorie Spiegel     233
The Sexual Politics of Meat   Carol J. Adams     245
Humans and Other Animals: Sociology's Moral and Intellectual Challenge   David Nibert     259
Living and Working with Other Animals     273
The Health Benefits of Human-Animal Interactions   Andrew N. Rowan   Alan M. Beck     275
Personality Characteristics of Dog and Cat Persons   Rose M. Perrine   Hannah L. Osbourne     280
Human Grief Resulting from the Death of a Pet   Gerald H. Gosse   Michael J. Barnes     292
Loving Them to Death: Blame-displacing Strategies of Animal Shelter Workers and Surrenderers   Stephen Frommer   Arnold Arluke     303
Savages, Drunks, and Lab Animals: The Researcher's Perception of Pain   Mary T. Phillips     317
Animal Rights-Philosophy and Social Movement     335
All Animals are Equal   Peter Singer     337
The Case for Animal Rights   Tom Regan     355
Animal Rights and Feminist Theory   Josephine Donovan     368
Caring about Blood, Flesh, and Pain: Women's Standing in the Animal Protection Movement   Lyle Munro     386
Contributors     401
Notes     403
References     413