SOSC 2000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Zed Books, Posthumanism, Antimicrobial Resistance

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2000
• Professor: Annette Bickford

Document Summary

As/sosc 2000 6. 0: interdisciplinary approaches to social science. Readings: tony weis, the ecological hoofprint: the global burden of industrial livestock. Terms: industrial monocultures, biophysical instabilities, overrides, metabolic losses, arable land, soil health, conversion losses, slurry pits, ghg emissions, monoculture production, co2 emission, nitrous oxide emissions (from nitrogen fertilizer). Animal binary, sociobiology, social darwinism, descartes: mind/body dualism, anthropocentrism, anthropomorphism. Reduced to noting more than the means to the end of profit in contemporary capitalist production. An ethical and philosophical position that emphasizes human progress, and the value and freedom or agency of humans, individually and collectively. It calls for science - evidence (rationalism) and critical thinking, and empiricism (sensory based evidence) over religious dogma and superstition. Non-religious (secular) movements affirms some notion of human freedom and progress. Anthropocentrism (human centred viewing in terms of human experience and values. Anthropomorphism (the attribution of human form or behaviour to an animal) has recently experienced a substantial re-evalutaiton wirthin the field of animal ethics.