SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Culture War, Transphobia, Ableism
9 Mar 2016
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Soci 1f90- introducion to criical animal studies (cas) march 9. Raising awareness about systemic exploitaion of animals in industrial industries. Cas analyzes economic, ethical, historical and sociological aspects of human-animal relaions. Social construct- a social mechanism, phenomenon or category created and developed by society; a percepion of an individual, group or idea that is constructed through social or cultural pracice. Black dog syndrome: high euthanasia rates and low adopion rates of black dogs, especially large black dogs in animal shelters (seen as more aggressive) Anthropocentrism- considering human beings as the most signiicant enity of the universe: canadian law is anthropocentric (animals are categorized as property, interpreing or regarding the world in terms of human values and experiences. Sociology- the science of society, social insituions and social relaionships. Culture (anthropocentric deiniion)- the integrated patern of human knowledge, belief and behaviour that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmiing knowledge to succeeding generaions.
