Word: durkheim
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...himself studied not psychology but history and literature when he was at Harvard; indeed, it may be the literary quality of many psychological findings that makes them go down so smooth for a meaning-hungry public. In my tutorial this year, Freud was sandwiched as a social thinker between Durkheim and Beauvoir—but really, my section leader told us, the Germans read him as poetry...
MUMBAI, INDIA—As soon as I entered the salon, I took out my copy of “Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Foundations of Modern Social Thought.” I scanned the first page nervously as I waited for the receptionist to call my name. “Modern social theory first emerged during the period of the ‘great transformation’...” the introduction began...
...relentlessly demanding student body. We live in crowded dorm rooms, we eat in communal dining halls, we participate in extracurricular activities to an almost unfathomable degree, and, when we’re not doing all that, we’re in sections with other people arguing about Durkheim or extracting DNA from strawberries. There is a strange pressure on top of all of this to “be social”—to go to the right parties, join the right clubs, make the right friends. At Harvard, we are aggressively social and we are never alone...
...Whether or not this annual academic conversion of 400 Harvardians is problematic depends on your view on the role of undergraduate education. If college is a mere credentialing experience, conferring legitimacy upon successful completion of the easiest field, then let them eat Durkheim...
While French never made it to my study card, I also withdrew from Social Studies 10 instead of dividing it with credit, grandly capping off four months of Durkheim and Tocqueville with a failing grade on my transcript. Perhaps I was distracted by the mire of bureaucracy that switching concentrations entailed. Nonetheless, I take full responsibility for my incompetence. What baffles me, however, is the fact that my advising “parachute” never opened above...