SOCI 1F90 Chapter Notes - Chapter 31: Proletariat, Agribusiness, Anthropocentrism
4 Apr 2017
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Seminar 10: sociology of the environment and emerging fields week march 27 - 31. Reading: rethinking society reader: chapter 37, david nibert, human and other animals: sociology"s moral and intellectual. In the section historical roots of oppression, nibert discusses the oppression of human and other animals in three periods: hunting and gathering society, agricultural society, and modern-day capitalism. Discuss the factors leading to the oppression of humans and other animals in each of these periods: hunting & gathering systematic stalking and killing of other animals contributed to other inequalities, such as the devaluation of women. Hunting shaped relations between female and male humans because the bodies of other animals became a prized asset, killing them enhanced male prestige and privilege. Men achieved elevated prestige through the acquisition and distribution of resources derived from the bodies of other animals, even though women generally provided more reliable, if more mundane, forms of nourishment and resources through foraging.
