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It's a Dog's Life: Elevating Status from Pet to "Fur Baby" at Yappy Hour

Jessica Greenebaum

Society and Animals 12 (2):117-135 (2004)

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Metaphoric Relationships with Pets.Russell W. Belk - 1996 - Society and Animals 4 (2):121-145.details Using depth interviews and participant observation, the predominant metaphors that emerge in pet owners' relationships with theiranimals are pets as pleasures, problems, parts of self, members of the family, and toys. These metaphors as well as patterns of interacting with and accounting for pets, suggest vacillation between viewing companion animals as human and civilized and viewing them as animalistic and chaotic. It is argued that these views comprise a mixed metaphor needed to more fully understand our fascination with pets. Download Export citation Bookmark 10 citations
Folkways.William Graham Sumner - 1906 - Boston: Ginn.details With the reprinting of Folkways it seems in place to inform the admirers of this book and of its author concerning the progress of Professor Sumner's work between 1907 and his death, in his seventieth year, in April, 1910. Several articles bearing on the mores, and realizing in part the programme outlined in the last paragraph of the foregoing Preface, have been published: "The Family and Social Change," in the American Journal of Sociology for March, 1909 ; "Witchcraft," in the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 25 citations
Doing Gender.Don H. Zimmerman & Candace West - 1987 - Gender and Society 1 (2):125-151.details The purpose of this article is to advance a new understanding of gender as a routine accomplishment embedded in everyday interaction. To do so entails a critical assessment of existing perspectives on sex and gender and the introduction of important distinctions among sex, sex category, and gender. We argue that recognition of the analytical independence of these concepts is essential for understanding the interactional work involved in being a gendered person in society. The thrust of our remarks is toward theoretical (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 399 citations

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