In The Circle by Dave Eggers, Mae Holland obtains a job at “the most influential company in the world” (Eggers page 1), the Circle with the help of her college friend/roommate Annie. Before working at the Circle, Mae worked at 9 to 5 at a gas and electric utilities company that “[subjected] her to its...limitations and scarcity of everything” (Eggers page 9), so the Circle in her mind is like a modern day utopia. Mae begins to work in the Customer Experience department as a representative where she answers customers’ queries and tracks customers satisfaction. Her first day on the job she was able to see a presentation by one of the Three Wise Men, Eamon Bailey. He introduced a new product called SeeChange, which is intended to broadcast from anywhere and anyone who logs in can see each other's activities through the camera. As Mae progresses with her job she becomes more and more isolated from her family and friends, and more submerged
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Emile Durkheim was born in the northeastern French town of Épinal and came from a long line of French Jews. Trained to be a rabbi when he was younger, he later became a product of the enlightenment. He saw his own religion of Judaism and other traditional religions as outdated and was disappointed with his university studies of humanities because he wanted something more scientific and practical. He felt that the social order of France during the nineteenth century was threatened because everyone had the mentality to only think about themselves and not about society. He later became a French social positivist and as a positivist, he wanted to use his science to fix the pathology of post-revolution France. In 1893, Emile Durkheim published De la division du travail social a.k.a The Division of Labour in Society. The book showed that there was a new kind of social morality, and everyone in the society depends on one another to
Emile Durkheim was born in the northeastern French town of Épinal and came from a long line of French Jews. Trained to be a rabbi when he was younger, he later became a product of the enlightenment. He saw his own religion of Judaism and other traditional religions as outdated and was disappointed with his university studies of humanities because he wanted something more scientific and practical. He felt that the social order of France during the nineteenth century was threatened because everyone had the mentality to only think about themselves and not about society. He later became a French social positivist and as a positivist, he wanted to use his science to fix the pathology of post-revolution France. In 1893, Emile Durkheim published De la division du travail social a.k.a The Division of Labour in Society. The book showed that there was a new kind of social morality, and everyone in the society depends on one another to