TY - JOUR AU - Alger, Janet AU - Alger, Steven PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Drawing the Line between Humans and Animals: An Examination of Introductory JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/drawing-the-line-between-humans-and-animals-an SP - AB - In this article, we studied the human-animal relationship as presented in introductory sociologytextbooks. We examined whether, and to what extent, the new knowledge about nonhumananimals had been integrated into mainstream sociology and used to reconceptualize therelationship of humans to animals. In other words, had human-animal relationships alreadybecome part of the future of sociology or did the negative legacy of Mead still dominate ourthinking about other species? ER -