Our Children and Other Animals
🎓 学术Academia book sociology childhood speciesism education 添加于 2026年4月9日Added Apr 9, 2026
从社会学视角分析儿童如何在成长过程中被建构出对动物的「正常」态度——为什么孩子天生亲近动物，却逐渐学会将某些动物视为食物、宠物或害虫。 A sociological analysis of how children are culturally constructed to adopt 'normal' attitudes toward animals — why kids are naturally drawn to animals yet gradually learn to categorize them as food, pets, or pests.
Our Children and Other Animals (Routledge, 2014) examines the cultural construction of human-animal relations in childhood. Cole and Stewart analyze how institutions — schools, media, family — teach children to accept the exploitation of some animals while cherishing others. The book draws on sociological theory to reveal how speciesism is reproduced across generations.