Investigation of cultural and sociological factors of animal abuse

Document Type : sience

Authors
Majid Foladian 1
najmeh jami 2
Mahdi Kolahi 3
1 Ferdosi Mashhad university
2 Master student of social science research at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
3 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Natural Resources and Environmental Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Abstract
The aim of this study was to identify the motivating grounds and contexts of animal abuse. Animal abuse is a clear example of deviant actions in society. In developed countries, due to the importance of culture and environmental ethics, this behavior is considered a crime and a punishment is considered for having healthy societies, because this type of violence, if not followed up and treated, can increase human catastrophes, violence, and increase. The rate of crime and insecurity in society to follow. Due to the importance of the subject, in this study to explain the phenomenon of animal abuse, theories in the field of sociology of deviations were used and due to the lack of official statistics in the field of animal abuse, first two groups of animal abuse and non-animal abuse were identified and separated by researchers. The causal method of this phenomenon was explained by causal-comparative method. The statistical population of the study was Besat boys primary school students located in the suburbs of Najaf in Mashhad. Data collection was done using a researcher-made questionnaire. Based on the results obtained from The Uman-Whitney test showed that between the two groups in the indicators of parental education, feelings of powerlessness, feelings of failure, social discrimination, domestic violence, risk-taking, stigma, attachment to parents, social exclusion, responsibility, leisure, relative deprivation and There is a significant difference between abnormal peers and there is no significant difference between the two indicators of school violence and parents' occupation.

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  • Receive Date 27 August 2020
  • Revise Date 06 September 2020
  • Accept Date 09 January 2021