A new perspective on social organization in dogs: contingencial model
Keywords:
Behaviorism, Ethology, Social beharior, Social skillsAbstract
Domestication significantly altered the dogs' cognitive ability and allowed certain social behaviors to be selected and guaranteed a wide range of possibilities in the organization and social interaction of these animals. Along with the differential of an environment shared with the human species, and given the growing scientific interest in understanding canine cognition, several theoretical models have been used to support the dynamics of canine social organization, including our relationship with them. From the first models established by Ethology, inspired by the transitional theory, to the hierarchy model of dominance, current attempts to explain canine social complexity seem far from solving or equalizing what scientific evidence has been demonstrating about this species in social terms. Even after the deconstruction of dominance models, until the emergence of theoretical alternatives, the emergence of theories that can formulate a new vision that meets the social complexity of dogs is necessary. In view of this, this article proposed a discussion of the canine social organization from the perspective of Skinner's Radical Behaviorism, for the construction of a model called contingency. Such a model presupposes the multiple ability of dogs to adapt to the social environment shared with man and, based on Behavioral Theory, to establish the bases of social dynamics involving intra and interspecies organization through the social skills that will compose the contingent social effects..
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