SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Cruelty To Animals, Intensive Animal Farming

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

Document Summary

The bottom line: social movements play key roles in changing social constructions. Animals seem to be a part of nature, something apart from humans. It continues, particularly in japan where whale meat is a commodity. Concern over declining whale populations have led to regulations and social movements. Whales illustrate the importance of social construction in assigning meaning to animals. Source of meat, source of milk, source of labor, shane is a source of homosexuality. People play with bulls (running of the bulls, matadors) Cattle drives to eradicate parasites in the cows. Rats and the bubonic plague (killed 30-60% of europe"s population) The english sparrow- not native to north america, native only to europe. Philadelphia was built on a swamp, lots of diseases from bugs. The birds in the city didn"t like living with people. People bring over sparrows from england, helps the problem Until there is backlash because it is from england.