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Abstract

To investigate the health benefits of companion animals in a way that
goes beyond finding statistical patterns involves appreciating the
philosophical debates about the nature of animal consciousness that
engage an inter-disciplinary field of scholarship cutting across the Great
Divide of the hard sciences and humanities. It also requires developing a
methodology to conduct empirical research which is often viewed as of
secondary importance by researchers wishing to make a philosophical
case about human beings and modernity. This paper considers the
achievements of qualitative sociologists, particularly in the field of post-
Meadian symbolic interactionism who have addressed these issues, and
discusses ways of extending and deepening this agenda through crossfertilization
with similar work in ethnomethodology, conversation analysis
and post-humanist sociology in investigating the health benefits of dogs.

Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Franklin, AS and Emmison, M and Haraway, D and Travers, MH
Keywords:	Animal-human relationship; Health; Methodology; Qualitative research; Ethnography
Journal or Publication Title:	Qualitative Sociology Review
Publisher:	Qualitative Sociology Review
ISSN:	1733-8077
Related URLs:	http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/inde...
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