Clinton R Sanders
Biographic Data
| ID | 90866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clinton R Sanders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clinton R |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanders |
| SIGNATURE | SANDERS C R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 472 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Human‐Non‐Human Interaction
Human interaction with nonhuman animals is a central feature of contemporary social life. Despite the fact that human interactions with animals are commonplace, they have, until fairly recently, been virtually ignored within sociology. This prosaic disregard of human–animal exchanges is based on a variety of core assumptions. Sociology is conventionally seen as the study of human social structures and relationships; sociologists hold to the Carte…
Learning from Experience: Recollections of Working with Howard S. Becker
Howard S. Becker is, and has been, a major figure in contemporary sociology, especially within the symbolic interactionist perspective. This discussion describes my initial encounter with Howie in the mid-1960s and moves to identify the substantive and methodological areas in which he has had major impact. I then briefly outline various ways in which the foci of my own work have been shaped by Becker's instruction and example
Living and Dying with an Ordinary Remarkable Dog A Little Big Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
In Favor of Tipping the Balance: Animal Rights Activists in Defense of Residential Picketing
This discussion focuses on the rationales employed by animal rights activists to explain their involvement in, and support of, protest tactics that are controversial both inside and outside the animal rights movement. The paper centers on the use of residential picketing (“home demos”) in a campaign against a private, multinational animal testing firm. Using ethnographic data and semistructured interviews with activists, the discussion demonstrat…
Working Out Back: "The Veterinary Technician and "Dirty Work
Based on three years of ethnographic research in a large, mixed-practice veterinary hospital and semistructured interviews with twenty-two veterinary technicians, this discussion focuses on the work of veterinary technicians, which is, as described by Everett Hughes (1984, 343), "physically disgusting," "a symbol of degradation," and "wound(ing to) one's dignity." The article briefly describes the vet tech's career and work activities. The discus…
The Sociology of Nonhuman Animals and Society
Mind, Self, and Human-Animal Joint Action
Because Herbert Blumer maintained that symbolic interactionism was useful in examining all realms of social behavior, and advocated what Martin Hammersley refers to as “critical commonsensism,” this paper focuses on one of the most common contemporary social relationships—that between people and companion animals. I first examine the basis for Blumer's (like Mead before him and many interactionist scholars today) exclusion of nonhuman animals fro…
Human‐Non‐Human Interaction
Human interaction with non‐human animals is a central feature of contemporary social life. The majority of households include at least one companion animal, more people visit zoos each year than attend professional sporting events, people are more likely to carry photographs of their pets than of their children, married women report that their pets are more important sources of affection than are their husbands or children, and more money is spen…
The Dog You Deserve: Ambivalence in the K-9 Officer/Patrol Dog Relationship
Primarily based on ethnographic fieldwork in a police K-9 training program, this article first presents the optimal attributes of patrol dogs and their handlers. It then moves to a discussion of the training process and emphasizes the apparent disjunction between defining the dog as a law enforcement tool, on one hand, and a unique and sentient individual, on the other. Following a description of key elements of the day-to-day work of the K-9 uni…
The Sweet (Social) Science: Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer
Dialing for Dollars: Opportunities, Justifications, and Telemarketing Fraud
Le travail sur la frontière entre les humains et les animaux dans l'Allemagne nazie
Le travail sur la frontière entre les humains et les animaux dans l'Allemagne nazie Arnold Arluke, Clinton R. Sanders L'article traite du statut conféré par les nazis aux animaux. Il rappelle tout d'abord l'étendue des mesures de protection des animaux adoptées sous l'Allemagne nazie : réglementation des conditions d'abattage, lutte globale contre les mauvais traitements, mesures antivivisection, contrôle strict de la chasse, sauvegarde des espèc…
"Whose Pet? Comment on Timothy Eddy, "What is a Pet
Actions Speak Louder than Words: Close Relationships between Humans and Nonhuman Animals
Symbolic interactionism and other sociological perspectives traditionally have not attended to a significant form of close relationship-that which exists between people and the companion animals with whom they share their everyday lives. After a brief presentation of a portion of the relevant literature that deals with how humans understand and interact with their animal companions, I present the process by which caretakers come to define the uni…
Understanding Dogs: Living and Working with Canine Companions
Introduction: The Relationship between People and Pets 2. The Everyday Dog Owner: Knowing and Living with Dogs 3. The Guide-Dog Owner: Dependence and Love 4. The Veterinarian: Caring for Canine Patients 5. The Guide-Dog Trainer: Understanding and Teaching Dogs 6. Animal Abilities and Human-Animal Interaction Notes References Index
Contemporary Field Research: Perspectives and Formulations, 2d Ed
The Impact of Guide Dogs on the Identity of People with Visual Impairments
This paper explores the effect of peoples' association with guide dogs on how they understand and feel about themselves and how they are regarded by those with whom they interact. The concepts of personal, collective, and social identity are used to situate the discussion. Of central importance is the way working with a guide dog shapes public interaction and how owner' self definitions and social identities are extended by being intimately invol…
Good Dog: Aspects of Humans' Causal Attributions for a Companion Animal's Social Behavior
Lay theories or assumptions about nonhuman animal mentality undoubtedly influence relations between people and companion animals. In two experiments respondents gave their impressions of the mental and motivational bases of companion animal social behavior through measures of causal attribution. When gauged against the matched actions of a boy, as in the first experiment, respondents attributed a dog's playing (good behavior) to internal, disposi…
Animals, Disease and Human Society: Human-Animal Relations and the Rise of Veterinary Medicine
Prospects for a Post-Postmodern Ethnography
Cultural Criminology
Motion pictures as metaphoric consumption: How animal narratives teach us to be human
Les chercheurs en communication travaillant sur le comportement du consommateur ont montre que les recits fictionnels, et notamment les films utilisant des acteurs humains, influencent fortement les croyances et les valeurs du consommateur. Les As. examinent ici les films dont le personnage principal est un animal, et montrent qu'ils sont un exemple de transfert metaphorique ou les personnages animaux forment une structure parallele reiterant les…
Earn as You Learn: Connections Between Doing Qualitative Work and Living Daily Life
Killing with kindness: Veterinary euthanasia and the social construction of personhood
Biting the Hand that Heals You: Encounters with Problematic Patients in a General Veterinary Practice
This discussion focuses on veterinary practice as a form of service delivery. Based on data collected during a year of participant observation in a major veterinary hospital in the northeast, the paper examines the criteria veterinarians routinely used to define nonhuman patients as problematic and the means they employed to deal with troublesome animals. The conclusion frames veterinarians' tactics for evaluating and controlling patients within …
Actions Speak Louder than Words: Close Relationships between Humans and Nonhuman Animals
Symbolic interactionism and other sociological perspectives traditionally have not attended to a significant form of close relationship-that which exists between people and the companion animals with whom they share their everyday lives. After a brief presentation of a portion of the relevant literature that deals with how humans understand and interact with their animal companions, I present the process by which caretakers come to define the uni…
Understanding Dogs: Caretakers' Attributions of Mindedness in Canine-Human Relationships
This article focuses on the criteria used by dog owners to define their animals as minded individuals with whom they maintain viable and satisfying social relationships. The discussion is based on field data drawn from a study in a veterinary clinic, interviews with dog owners, and autoethnographic materials compiled by the author as he observed and interacted with his own dogs. Special attention is directed at caretakers' understandings of their…
If Lions Could Speak: Investigating the Animal-Human Relationship and the Perspectives of Nonhuman Others
Though they have not tended to be the focus of sociological attention in the past, interactions between humans and nonhuman animals are central to contemporary social life. This discussion presents the problems inherent in and the unique rewards offered by investigations of animal-human relationships. Of particular importance are the issues of whether one can and how one goes about assuming the perspective of alingual and/or nonhuman others. We a…
Dogs and Their People: Pet-Facilitated Interaction in a Public Setting
This article reports a case study of dogs' contributions to interaction and the development of relationships among unacquainted persons. The study examines dynamics of inclusion among dog owners at a public park and is based on participant observation of those processes. That examination reveals that dogs expose their human companions in public places to encounters with strangers, facilitate interaction among the previously unacquainted, and help…
Excusing Tactics: Social Responses to the Public Misbehavior of Companion Animals
Using qualitative data generated through participant observation and auto-ethnographic techniques, this paper focuses on situations in which companion dogs violate the expectations of public propriety. Seven excusing tactics used by those accompanying such dogs to restore the disrupted interactional flow and repair their damaged social identities are presented. This animal-human interaction is compared to similar social maneuvers used by adults t…
Killing with kindness: Veterinary euthanasia and the social construction of personhood
The Impact of Guide Dogs on the Identity of People with Visual Impairments
This paper explores the effect of peoples' association with guide dogs on how they understand and feel about themselves and how they are regarded by those with whom they interact. The concepts of personal, collective, and social identity are used to situate the discussion. Of central importance is the way working with a guide dog shapes public interaction and how owner' self definitions and social identities are extended by being intimately invol…
Working Out Back: "The Veterinary Technician and "Dirty Work
Based on three years of ethnographic research in a large, mixed-practice veterinary hospital and semistructured interviews with twenty-two veterinary technicians, this discussion focuses on the work of veterinary technicians, which is, as described by Everett Hughes (1984, 343), "physically disgusting," "a symbol of degradation," and "wound(ing to) one's dignity." The article briefly describes the vet tech's career and work activities. The discus…
Marks of Mischief: Becoming and Being Tattooed
Following a general discussion of body alteration practices and a presentation of the history of tattooing in Western culture, this article focuses on the process a person goes through in deciding to be tattooed and the effect of this decision on the tattooee's self-definition and social experience. The data are drawn from six years of participant observation in a variety of tattoo settings, 163 structured questionnaires, and 16 lengthy, semistru…
Annoying owners: Routine interactions with problematic clients in a general veterinary practice
Dialing for Dollars: Opportunities, Justifications, and Telemarketing Fraud
The Dog You Deserve: Ambivalence in the K-9 Officer/Patrol Dog Relationship
Primarily based on ethnographic fieldwork in a police K-9 training program, this article first presents the optimal attributes of patrol dogs and their handlers. It then moves to a discussion of the training process and emphasizes the apparent disjunction between defining the dog as a law enforcement tool, on one hand, and a unique and sentient individual, on the other. Following a description of key elements of the day-to-day work of the K-9 uni…
Mind, Self, and Human-Animal Joint Action
Because Herbert Blumer maintained that symbolic interactionism was useful in examining all realms of social behavior, and advocated what Martin Hammersley refers to as “critical commonsensism,” this paper focuses on one of the most common contemporary social relationships—that between people and companion animals. I first examine the basis for Blumer's (like Mead before him and many interactionist scholars today) exclusion of nonhuman animals fro…
Prospects for a Post-Postmodern Ethnography
Psyching Out the Crowd: Folk Performers and Their Audiences
Animals, Disease and Human Society: Human-Animal Relations and the Rise of Veterinary Medicine
Biting the Hand that Heals You: Encounters with Problematic Patients in a General Veterinary Practice
This discussion focuses on veterinary practice as a form of service delivery. Based on data collected during a year of participant observation in a major veterinary hospital in the northeast, the paper examines the criteria veterinarians routinely used to define nonhuman patients as problematic and the means they employed to deal with troublesome animals. The conclusion frames veterinarians' tactics for evaluating and controlling patients within …
Purposes, Patterns, and Protection in a Campus Drug Using Community
Structural and Interactional Features of Popular Culture Production: An Introduction to the Production of Culture Perspective
Caught in the Con-Game: The Young, White Drug User's Contact with the Legal System
This paper examines a controversial area of legal activity-the enforcement of drug laws. It focuses on the experiences of the young, white drug user for whom arrest and processing for drug law violations commonly represent the first serious involvement with the legal system.It is within the interactions and institutional experience of legal processing that the young drug user alters, reconstructs or solidifies a meaning structure which defines an…
Learning from Experience: Recollections of Working with Howard S. Becker
Howard S. Becker is, and has been, a major figure in contemporary sociology, especially within the symbolic interactionist perspective. This discussion describes my initial encounter with Howie in the mid-1960s and moves to identify the substantive and methodological areas in which he has had major impact. I then briefly outline various ways in which the foci of my own work have been shaped by Becker's instruction and example
In Favor of Tipping the Balance: Animal Rights Activists in Defense of Residential Picketing
This discussion focuses on the rationales employed by animal rights activists to explain their involvement in, and support of, protest tactics that are controversial both inside and outside the animal rights movement. The paper centers on the use of residential picketing (“home demos”) in a campaign against a private, multinational animal testing firm. Using ethnographic data and semistructured interviews with activists, the discussion demonstrat…
Good Dog: Aspects of Humans' Causal Attributions for a Companion Animal's Social Behavior
Lay theories or assumptions about nonhuman animal mentality undoubtedly influence relations between people and companion animals. In two experiments respondents gave their impressions of the mental and motivational bases of companion animal social behavior through measures of causal attribution. When gauged against the matched actions of a boy, as in the first experiment, respondents attributed a dog's playing (good behavior) to internal, disposi…
Motion pictures as metaphoric consumption: How animal narratives teach us to be human
Les chercheurs en communication travaillant sur le comportement du consommateur ont montre que les recits fictionnels, et notamment les films utilisant des acteurs humains, influencent fortement les croyances et les valeurs du consommateur. Les As. examinent ici les films dont le personnage principal est un animal, et montrent qu'ils sont un exemple de transfert metaphorique ou les personnages animaux forment une structure parallele reiterant les…
Earn as You Learn: Connections Between Doing Qualitative Work and Living Daily Life
The Portrayal of War and the Fighting Man in Novels of the Vietnam War
Purposes, Patterns, and Protection in a Campus Drug Using Community
Psyching Out the Crowd: Folk Performers and Their Audiences
Icons of the Alternate Culture: The Themes and Functions of Underground Comix
Caught in the Con-Game: The Young, White Drug User's Contact with the Legal System
This paper examines a controversial area of legal activity-the enforcement of drug laws. It focuses on the experiences of the young, white drug user for whom arrest and processing for drug law violations commonly represent the first serious involvement with the legal system.It is within the interactions and institutional experience of legal processing that the young drug user alters, reconstructs or solidifies a meaning structure which defines an…
Social Problems and Criminal Justice
Leisure and Popular Culture in Transition
Structural and Interactional Features of Popular Culture Production: An Introduction to the Production of Culture Perspective
Dimensions of Science Fiction
Marks of Mischief: Becoming and Being Tattooed
Following a general discussion of body alteration practices and a presentation of the history of tattooing in Western culture, this article focuses on the process a person goes through in deciding to be tattooed and the effect of this decision on the tattooee's self-definition and social experience. The data are drawn from six years of participant observation in a variety of tattoo settings, 163 structured questionnaires, and 16 lengthy, semistru…
Customizing the Body: The Art and Culture of Tattooing
Originally published in 1989, this ground-breaking ethnographic exploration of tattooing and the art world surrounding it covers the history, anthropology, and sociology of body modification practices; the occupational experience of the tattooist; the process and social consequences of becoming a tattooed person; and the prospects of serious tattooing becoming an accepted art form. Curiously, despite the greater prevalence of tattoos and body mod…
Excusing Tactics: Social Responses to the Public Misbehavior of Companion Animals
Using qualitative data generated through participant observation and auto-ethnographic techniques, this paper focuses on situations in which companion dogs violate the expectations of public propriety. Seven excusing tactics used by those accompanying such dogs to restore the disrupted interactional flow and repair their damaged social identities are presented. This animal-human interaction is compared to similar social maneuvers used by adults t…
Marginal Conventions: Popular Culture, Mass Media and Social Deviance
Dogs and Their People: Pet-Facilitated Interaction in a Public Setting
This article reports a case study of dogs' contributions to interaction and the development of relationships among unacquainted persons. The study examines dynamics of inclusion among dog owners at a public park and is based on participant observation of those processes. That examination reveals that dogs expose their human companions in public places to encounters with strangers, facilitate interaction among the previously unacquainted, and help…
Understanding Dogs: Caretakers' Attributions of Mindedness in Canine-Human Relationships
This article focuses on the criteria used by dog owners to define their animals as minded individuals with whom they maintain viable and satisfying social relationships. The discussion is based on field data drawn from a study in a veterinary clinic, interviews with dog owners, and autoethnographic materials compiled by the author as he observed and interacted with his own dogs. Special attention is directed at caretakers' understandings of their…
If Lions Could Speak: Investigating the Animal-Human Relationship and the Perspectives of Nonhuman Others
Though they have not tended to be the focus of sociological attention in the past, interactions between humans and nonhuman animals are central to contemporary social life. This discussion presents the problems inherent in and the unique rewards offered by investigations of animal-human relationships. Of particular importance are the issues of whether one can and how one goes about assuming the perspective of alingual and/or nonhuman others. We a…
Biting the Hand that Heals You: Encounters with Problematic Patients in a General Veterinary Practice
This discussion focuses on veterinary practice as a form of service delivery. Based on data collected during a year of participant observation in a major veterinary hospital in the northeast, the paper examines the criteria veterinarians routinely used to define nonhuman patients as problematic and the means they employed to deal with troublesome animals. The conclusion frames veterinarians' tactics for evaluating and controlling patients within …
Reply to Hilbert
We hoped that our article, If Lions Could Speak (The Sociological Quarterly 34: 377390), would encourage scholarship in the area of animal studies and define such work as a legitimate field of inquiry, as well as to generate discussion about how to undertake a sociological understanding of human interaction with nonhuman animals. Clearly, Richard Hilbert's thoughtful response is a wonderful example of the latter. To briefly summarize his major po…
Annoying owners: Routine interactions with problematic clients in a general veterinary practice
Killing with kindness: Veterinary euthanasia and the social construction of personhood
Cultural Criminology
Motion pictures as metaphoric consumption: How animal narratives teach us to be human
Les chercheurs en communication travaillant sur le comportement du consommateur ont montre que les recits fictionnels, et notamment les films utilisant des acteurs humains, influencent fortement les croyances et les valeurs du consommateur. Les As. examinent ici les films dont le personnage principal est un animal, et montrent qu'ils sont un exemple de transfert metaphorique ou les personnages animaux forment une structure parallele reiterant les…
Earn as You Learn: Connections Between Doing Qualitative Work and Living Daily Life
Good Dog: Aspects of Humans' Causal Attributions for a Companion Animal's Social Behavior
Lay theories or assumptions about nonhuman animal mentality undoubtedly influence relations between people and companion animals. In two experiments respondents gave their impressions of the mental and motivational bases of companion animal social behavior through measures of causal attribution. When gauged against the matched actions of a boy, as in the first experiment, respondents attributed a dog's playing (good behavior) to internal, disposi…
Animals, Disease and Human Society: Human-Animal Relations and the Rise of Veterinary Medicine
Sociology (34 works) · Psychology (28 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (17 works) · Human-Animal Interaction Studies (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works)