What is it like to be this particular dog and how might this dog’s experiences be typical or abnormal? How is the dog’s lifeworld coproduced through interactions and relations with humans? How is this dog’s existence and status determined by institutional conditions and cultural practices?
SOCIOLOGY OF DOGS & OTHER CANIDS How does the dog, as a thinking, feeling, socially-complex being, interact with humans in a shared environment? Is the dog’s subjective agency recognized and allowed to flourish? Is the dog an object, symbol, clown, prisoner, slave, tool, property, friend, family member, something else? What is it like to be […]