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Animals and modernity: changing human-animal relations, 1949-98
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-16, 12:51 authored by Adrian FranklinAdrian Franklin, White, RDIn this article we provide an empirical test of Franklin's (1999) recent contribution to the burgeoning study of human-animal relations. Drawing on the anthropological claim that animals are good to think with, Franklin used theories of reflexive modernization to explain a shift to increasingly zoocentric and sentimentalized relations with animals. After deriving a series of expectations from this account, we tested them through a content-analysis of over 1000 articles from one Australian newspaper over a 50-year period. Broadly, we found support for Franklin's key claims. But we also found local contingencies and historical continuities which suggest limits to the sweeping theorizations of change in accounts of reflexive modernization.
History
Publication title
Journal of SociologyVolume
37Pagination
219-238ISSN
0004-8690Department/School
School of Social SciencesPublisher
Sage PublicationsPlace of publication
LondonRepository Status
- Restricted