{"id":516,"date":"2010-10-21T01:59:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T06:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=516"},"modified":"2011-11-07T15:02:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:02:58","slug":"our-animals-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2010\/10\/21\/our-animals-ourselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Animals, Ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by Rodrigho on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/39606736@N05\/5098134334\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1057\/5098134334_c22d3866ce_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"LILY_001\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhen many of us think of society, animals don\u2019t necessarily come to mind.\u00a0 But, sociologists have recently begun to explore the relationships between human and non-human animals.\u00a0 In the most recent issue of <em>Contexts, <\/em>Arnold Arluke examines the importance of animals in our everyday lives.\u00a0 All students could find something to resonate with in this piece, whether they associate certain traits with certain animals, have watched television shows about animal hoarders, have lamented that their significant others couldn\u2019t be as \u201cloyal\u201d as their pet, or choose not to eat animals or animal products.<\/p>\n<p>There are many ways this piece could be utilized in the classroom.\u00a0 Students could be asked to find a news story that focuses on animals and reflect on how the animals are portrayed and what Arluke would say the story reflects about our relationships with animals.\u00a0 Or, students could choose a particular species and examine people\u2019s relationships with that species over time.\u00a0 For this example, several international cases would be useful to illustrate the cultural constructions of animals\/pets.\u00a0 Along these lines, students could also research the animal cruelty laws that Arluke mentions.\u00a0 They can examine which animals are covered by these laws and discuss why some, like farm animals, are not.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, you could introduce the idea of \u201cspeciesism\u201d and take a look at social movements that strive to achieve animal rights or animal liberation.\u00a0 PETA\u2019s campaigns that juxtapose animal suffering against human slavery and the Holocaust could also spark great discussions, so students could be given the assignment to peruse PETA2\u2019s current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peta2.com\/alp\/\">Animal Liberation Project\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When many of us think of society, animals don\u2019t necessarily come to mind.\u00a0 But, sociologists have recently begun to explore the relationships between human and non-human animals.\u00a0 In the most recent issue of Contexts, Arnold Arluke examines the importance of animals in our everyday lives.\u00a0 All students could find something to resonate with in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[155,837,12859],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-animals","tag-materials","tag-speciesism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}