| 期刊全称 | Animals in the Sociologies of Westermarck and Durkheim | | 影响因子2023 | Salla Tuomivaara | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | Addresses an important gap in the literature of animal studies and sociology.Provides a refreshing analysis of classical sociological theory from the animal perspective.Situates the work in contempora | | 学科分类 | The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | .This book explores why animals, at some point, disappeared from the realm and scope of sociology. The role of sociology in the construction of a science of the ‘human’ has been substantial, building representations of the human sphere of life as unique. Within the sociological tradition however, animals have often been invisible, even non-existent. Through in-depth comparisons of the texts of prominent early sociologists Emile Durkheim and Edward Westermarck, Tuomivaara shows that despite this exclusion, representations of animals and human-animal relations were far more varied in early works than in the later sociological cannon. ..Addressing a significant gap in the interdisciplinary field of animal studies, Tuomivaara presents a close reading of the historical treatment of animals in the works of Durkheim and Westermarck to determine how the human-animal boundary was established in sociological theory. The diverse forms in which animals and ‘the animal’appear in the works of early classical sociology are charted and explored, alongside the sociological themes that bring animals into these texts. Situated in contemporary theory, from critical animal studies to posthumanism, this | | Pindex | Book 2019 |
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