International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 23 Issue 3

Humans and other animals: sociology’s moral and intellectual challenge

David Nibert

Sociology, narrowly defined and almost universally practiced as the study of human society, is limited in its benefits to human animals because it ignores how hegemonically…

Ethnozoology and the future of sociology

Arnold Arluke

Three questions are explored regarding ethnozoology’s place in sociology. First, why has sociology been slow to explore this subject or to give it much credibility? Resistance by…

No longer the lonely species: a post‐mead perspective on animals and sociology

Olin E. Myers

Society’s relations to animals pose possible blind spots in sociological theory that may be revealed and illuminated by studying systems of human‐animal interaction. By…

Drawing the line between humans and animals: an examination of introductory sociology textbooks

Janet M. Alger, Steven F. Alger

Ever since Mead, sociology has maintained a deep divide between human and non human animals. In effect, Mead constructed humans as having capacities that he saw lacking in…

A course is a course, of course, of course (unless it’s an animals and society course): challenging boundaries in academia

Clifton P. Flynn

Only within the past decade have sociologists begun to investigate the relationships between humans and other animals. Even more recently, college courses that examine this…