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Carter, Bob and Charles, Nickie (2018) The animal challenge to sociology. European Journal of Social Theory, 21 (1). pp. 79-97. doi:10.1177/1368431016681305 ISSN 1368-4310.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431016681305
Abstract
In this article, we ask why is it that sociology has been slow to take up the animal challenge, and ask what would happen if it did. We argue that sociology’s fraught relationship with biology, its assumptions about human exceptionalism and its emergence in the context of industrialization and urbanization are key to understanding its lack of attention to animals and contribute to a limited conceptualization of society. This can be remedied by viewing non-human animals as involuntarily embedded in social relationships, a move which involves a redefinition of the social and of what it means to be human; a revision of notions of agency, subjectivity and reflexivity; and a rejection of the speciesism and anthropocentrism on which sociology is based. Finally, the article contends that a full understanding of society is not possible if we continue to direct the sociology gaze only at humans.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology Q Science > QL Zoology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Human-animal relationships, Sociology -- History | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | European Journal of Social Theory | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1368-4310 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 February 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 21 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 79-97 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/1368431016681305 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 November 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 November 2017 |
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