Emile Berliner

ESSAY While reading many books I have reincarnated my soul many a times. But they have only given me knowledge and a definite perception of the world. But the voluble and fallacious content of the book named “SIDDHARTHA”, WRITTEN BY HERMAN HESSE has changed the way I view the world. The author had come to India for a visit and came across the idealism of Lord Buddha. He was immensely happy and overwhelmed to know the ideas that Buddhism offered. It sprouted up the positive feelings in his…

How the ideas of Durkheim have helped my understanding of one of the following aspects of contemporary society – suicide. For my essay I chose to examine the sociological work of Émile Durkheim relating to his study of suicide. When researching suicide, you have to ask yourself a few questions; is suicide an individual matter? Or are there sociological factors influencing suicide rates? Durkheim was the first to argue that the causes of suicide were to be found in social factors and not…

A sanctuary city is a city, like San Francisco, that does not turn in illegal aliens to ICE (immigration and customs enforcement). This gives lawbreakers a place to hide from the law and federal government. Some people think that sanctuary cities are a benefit to America and some beg to differ. One end of the spectrum believes that these cities are good for America, while some hate it. The main issue people have with sanctuary cities is immigration. Some believe in the protection of illegals…

Durkheim identifies several features when he explains what social facts are. He explains that “social fact exist separately from the individual effects” (207). Since a social fact could be external to the individual Durkheim relates this to suicide. According to Durkheim there is three types of suicides anomic, egoistic and altruistic. Suicides occur for different reasons egoistic suicides occur when an individual doesn’t feel that they belong or that they are socially accepted and integrated…

A particular example of social fact is racism. Racism is described as the belief in racial differences, which can cause discriminatory acts – where a distinct biological group is described as inferior; the members of a particular race are commonly faced with derogatory racial based comments, stereotypes and non-equal treatment. One of the main causes of racism is an individuals surrounding factors during their years of development and education – the passing down from generation to…

To reiterate, Durkheim believed that through the division of labor, solidarity arises within a society. Therefore, Durkheim argues that there are two types of solidarity which are mechanical and organic solidarity. According to Durkheim, mechanical solidarity is based on likeness. These societies are characterized by likeness, in which the people of society share similarities. For instance, Durkheim said that in early society, men and women were similar. They had similarities. Since during this…

Emile Durkheim lived in France until the twentieth century. During this time Durkheim focused on social change and industrial society. He questions social order and was curious of how social order is achieved and maintained within social progress (Dillion, 2014). Durkheim is known for coming up with the discipline of sociology, he differentiated it from philosophy and psychology by focusing on the empirical research and social facts. Durkheim was one of the first to explain the existence and…

The novel, Into the Wild, written by Jon Krakauer, is a riveting, cautionary tale about the death of Chris McCandless, a young man who embarks on a journey to Alaska to seek the truth of happiness through the solitude of nature and free himself from the constraints of society. No doubt, the ongoing theme throughout Krakauer’s novel is the dysfunctional father-son relationship between Chris and his dad. In fact, McCandless died before he had the chance to grow out of his anger. Into the Wild…

Jon Krakauer writes his book “Into the Wild” in response to the similarities in background that Krakauer and McCandless had. His his Author’s Note, Krakauer writes that he had an urge to write more about McCandless’ story given the “unsettling parallels” the two seemed to have with the events of their lives (ii). The author seems to see a little of himself within McCandless, a young man with admiration of the wilderness. Another reason why Krakauer wrote the book was that the American people…

Into the Wild vs Walden Into the Wild, a book about a man who ran away from childhood problems and decided to walk into the wilderness by himself after getting rid of all of his materialistic items including his car and money, and Walden, a book about a man who fled towards simplicity and solitude to understand what life was really about, are two incredible books. The stories are timeless and will likely still be talked about in fifty years. The protagonists, Thoreau and Chris, shared many…