Black Panther à côté d'un Space Invader géant - Rue Emilie Durkheim: yoyolabellut / Lionel
Here’s another essay written while I was an undergraduate at Trent University in the 1980s.
Now converted into PDF, it was originally written on a prototypical Atari computer–one of the first PCs to hit the market, with an external floppy drive (those big, old floppies) and a b&w TV for a monitor.
The subject matter is an analytical assessment of Émile Durkheim’s (in his era) groundbreaking theory on suicide. I remember being impressed at how Durkheim looked at European demographics to try to understand suicide as a social phenomenon, just as social psychologists, advertisers and researchers would examine data today.
But like any thinker, old world or new, Durkheim had his limitations.
Feel free to mention this – and the ideas it contains – in university and college assignments but be sure to use one of the standard citation styles if you do.
–MC
