Final Animals Exam

Flashcards about Social Construction, Wilderness and the ideas of Nazi Germany

Social construction of science and technology

scientific knowledge and technology are not objective, but shaped by social, political, and cultural forces

Cognitive Constructions

constructions that reveal meanings ensconced in attitudes, values, beliefs; they are found in texts and discourse

Physical Constructions

constructions that are embodied and enacted - as opposed to spoken or written - sources of meaning: they are found in societies technologies (dams, hatcheries, fishing gear, etc.)

Wilderness as a concept transition

Before industrialization, “wilderness” was seen as a wasted space by Western culture. Shifts in the late 1800s: spiritual space due to its rarity.

Native, Non native and invasive species

Thomas theorem

One is out of place and the other isnt.

• How we think about animals is also how we think of humans 

• Value is determined by the diversity of species 

• Humans decide what is good or bad for the environment that we have changed.

Humans and wilderness (Cronon)

There is no wilderness: saying we don’t belong is wilderness = humans are not animals.

When we think that the things we build aren't natural then we no longer see ourselves as animals 

Non-native and Non-invasive

• Rainbow Trout

• Brown

• Kokanee

Non-native and Invasive

• Brook 

• Lake 

• Carp

Ecofeminism

movement that sees a connection between the exploitation and degradation of the natural world and the subordination and oppression of women

Absent Referent

separation of meat from the idea that it was once an animal

Sexual Politics of Meat

Carol Adams: Feminist Critical Theory explores the relationship between gender, sexuality, and the consumption of meat.

Boundary Work

the drawing and blurring of lines between humans and animals

Eugenics

artificially select traits, choosing what humans should reproduce, resulting in sterilization

Social Biology

Using biology to socially construct acceptable ideas of humans and create distinctions among people

Hitler and Animals

Very modern welfare laws

Nazi’s identified as strong carnivores

Chicago Slaughterhouses

Inspired Henry Ford’s Assembly Line

Mass production of meat and exploitation of animals

Cult Worship of Animals

Nazi hunting parties: immoral to kill the biggest, strongest animals instead its better to cull the herd of the weak 

1936 Olympics

Jesse Owens wins 4 gold medals 

Mark Robinson also winds silver (Jackie Robinson’s) brother

Disript the boundary supporting racist ideology

Author’s Beliefs

Thru Social Darwinism, Animal slaughter, and industrialization led to Hitler’s mass murder of over 6 million people 

Thomas Malthus

population grows faster than food supplies

Darwin

differential survival based on individual differences

Herbert Spencer

Social evolution

What is wrong with the March of Progress

It falsely implies that evolution is linear and progressive

Ethnological Exploitations

Multiple women being paraded around and on display 

Zoos

Control and dominance over animals