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Azalea Festival. Discovering the world of dogs. By: Brooke Norman, Ingvild Willwerth, John Wallace Isom Jr. Introduction. Process Findings Analysis Conclusion. Methods and process. Before Prepared and decided on strategy No extended research or initial research question On the day
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Azalea Festival Discovering the world of dogs By: Brooke Norman, Ingvild Willwerth, John Wallace Isom Jr.
Introduction • Process • Findings • Analysis • Conclusion
Methods and process • Before • 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 owners • Dog owning community • Dogs are like ’ice breaker’ • Code of conduct – Premission, show interest, appreciation • Dogs 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
Findings – Relationships • Relationships between dogs and owners, easily observable • World Champion dog trainer (*) • People treating dogs as family (*) • Dog riding in twin baby stroller • Balanced relationships -- "Oh, you've got an itch." • 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“
Findings cont. • 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 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!
Conclusion • Limitations and further research: • Time • Space • Concepts • Theories ---------------------------------------------------------- • 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)