Document type: thesis report published in HAL thèses Normandie Universitéthèses Normandie Université
Author: Peinado
Preview (Abstract in English provided by the author): Can the conditions of animals in industrial agriculture cause humans to suffer? A sociological study on ethical conflicts and identity tensions among workers in animal production
.This thesis focuses on the difficulties experienced by workers in intensive animal farming, both employees and farmers, in terms of ethical conflicts and identity tensions. Based on a sociological study using an inductive and comprehensive approach, it highlights situations in which these workers experience difficulties related to animal husbandry conditions. It describes the stages of occupational socialization that lead to the development of a distanced relationship with farm animals, marked by the erosion of the emotional dimension. This thesis also shows that these workers face identity tensions arising from the fact that the values central to their social and professional identity are being challenged in a context where industrial farming and the condition of animals in industrial agriculture are the subject of critical social representations. Finally, this work falls within the disciplinary fields of rural and agricultural sociology, while drawing on the fields of sociology of work and professions, anthropology of human-animal relationships, psychodynamics of work, and philosophy dealing with the condition of animals.
