Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Peggs, K

Titel

Animals and Sociology [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2012

Ort / Verlag

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Cover; Contents; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Sociology and Animals; 2 Animals and Biology as Destiny; 3 Animals, Social Inequalities and Oppression; 4 Animals, Crime and Abuse; 5 Town and Country: Animals, Space and Place; 6 Consumption of the Animal; 7 Animals, Leisure and Culture; 8 Animal Experiments and Animal Rights; 9 Conclusions: Sociology for Other Animals; References; Author Index; Subject Index
• Animals and Sociology challenges traditional assumptions about the nature of sociology. Sociology often centres on humans; however, other animals are everywhere in society. Kay Peggs explores the significant contribution that sociology can make to our understanding of human relations with other animals.
• English