SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Intensive Animal Farming, Social Movement, Passenger Pigeon

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

Document Summary

Animals: overview: views of animals: natural, instrumental, dangerous, social movements and animals, animal rights, the bottom line: social movements play key roles in changing social constructions. Animals seem to be part of nature, something apart from humans. But people view animals as resources: example of whaling and resources from whales, oil from whales, whaling created fortunes in new england it continues, particularly in japan, where whale meat is a commodity. Whales illustrate the importance of social construction in assigning meaning to animals. Bad animals : path of the black death, 1347-50 (terrible disease, the bubonic plague, killed about a 3rd of the people in europe (30-60% of people) Bring out your dead - garbage truck for people who died from plague. Pigeons: rats with wings : pigeons like to live near people because we make a lot of garbage they can eat.