Open letter urges the American Sociological Association to include nonhuman animals

There was a recent open letter to the American Sociological Association to “encourage ASA and its membership to expand their sociological imaginations to incorporate and evaluate our relationships to other animals… Regardless of production conditions, the consumption of other animals’ flesh, milk, and eggs represents a relationship of oppression that ignores other animals’ interests in [...]

Podcast interview with sociologist Clifton Flynn on On Human-Nonhuman Relations June 2012

Roger Yates interviews Clifton Flynn, sociologist and author of Social Creatures (Lantern Books, 2008) and Understanding Animal Abuse: A Sociological Analysis (Lantern Books, 2012) about his work on animal abuse and the changing views about nonhuman animals in the field of sociology. Clifton Flynn is among a group of sociologists who are trying to get the [...]

The Century of the Self

“And everybody was happy.” –Edward Bernays The Century if the Self is a documentary about how Edward Bernays mastered the art of manipulation and the influence of the marketing and manipulation techniques he developed on politics and society in the United States. The Century of the self [1/4] Happiness Machines from zerzoura on Vimeo.   [...]

Why Love One & Eat the Other?

A Class Divided

In 1968, 3rd grade teacher Jane Elliott taught her students about discrimination by dividing them into two groups by eye color. On the first day, the blue eyed students were treated as if they were superior and were encouraged to discriminate against the brown eyed students. On the second day, they switched places. The experiment [...]