Post on 24-Feb-2016
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Azalea FestivalDiscovering the world of dogs
By: Brooke Norman, Ingvild Willwerth, John Wallace Isom Jr.
Methods and processBefore
◦ Prepared and decided on strategy◦ No extended research or initial research question
On the day◦ Saturday March 9th – 12 pm to 3 pm◦ Dog show at 1pm and 2:30 pm – walked around inbetween ◦ Seperated and met up periodically to compare notes◦ Fieldnotes: phone, notebooks, headnotes
After◦ Discussed and compared notes◦ Did further research
Dogs owners and non-dog ownersDog owning communityDogs are like ’ice breaker’Code of conduct – Premission, show interest,
appreciationDogs interact – controlled by owners Dogs in cages – interaction differed Owners appologize for ’misbehaved’ dogs
Episode: Man approcahed to pet a small dog – dog barked and backed off looking scared, went behind owner – the man percisted to attempt to pet the dog a few more times – interaction became appologetic – owners appologized for the dog’s behaviour
Dalmatian owner and dog, Zeba.
Episode: Young Dalmatian was full of energy and jumping on the bleachers and kids. Owner still apologized for dog, but was more casual in her response. Her relationship with Zeba was playful and relaxed, with less discipline. "If you don't love me then you should“
Relationships between dogs and owners, easily observable
World Champion dog trainer (*)
People treating dogs as family (*)Dog riding in twin baby strollerBalanced relationships -- "Oh, you've got an itch."
Findings – Relationships
Episode: The first act I saw was a family sitting down eating their lunch. The man was eating a hotdog and his dog was sitting down intently looking at the man looking hungry. The man flipped the hot dog let the dog bite it in the same spot. Then he took another bite behind the dog. I said Hotdog!
Sense of Space: zones, behavior etc. Control and Safety: tradition, police, bridge of trust, false
sense of security (*) Gender: Male/Female owners, dicipline, dogs, interaction (*) Attitudes/Perspectives: the show dogs, owner dogs,
Humane Society dogs Dog show 1, dog show 2
Findings cont.
Conclusion Limitations and further research:
◦ Time◦ Space◦ Concepts◦ Theories
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Sources:◦ Ramirez, M. (2006) ‘"My Dog's Just Like Me": Dog Ownership as a Gender Display’ in Symbolic
Interaction 29 (3): 373-391, Available at: http://search.proquest.com/docview/224800281/13C125333227DB82E07/1?accountid=14800 (accessed: 2/05/2013)
◦ Sanders, R. C. & Arluke, A. (1993) ‘If Lions Could Speak: Investigating the Animal-Human Relationship and the Perspectives of Nonhuman Others’ in The Sociological Quarterly 34 (3): 377-390, Available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/view/4121103?&Search=yes&searchText=sanders&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoAdvancedSearch%3Fq0%3Dclinton%2Bsanders%26f0%3Dau%26c1%3DAND%26q1%3Ddog%26f1%3Dall%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don%26fc%3Doff%26Search%3DSearch%26ar%3Don%26sd%3D%26ed%3D%26la%3D%26pt%3D%26isbn%3D (accessed: 2/05/2013)