Emile Durkheim
Date Submitted: 01/16/2001 10:45:10
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 7 pages (1941 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 7 pages (1941 words)
This essay will describe Emile Durkheim’s concepts of social integration and social/moral regulation and will explain how Durkheim connects them to suicide. It will then utilize those concepts to analyze the social effects of the Buffalo Creek flood, as described in the book “Everything In Its Path”, by Kai T. Erikson, showing other consequences besides higher suicide rates.
Durkheim’s concept of social integration refers to social groups with well-defined values, traditions, norms, and goal…
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…get over it and move on, but the survivors of the Buffalo Creek disaster were not able to do this because of their total loss of “Gemeinschaft” or sense of community.
Sources:
Erikson, Kai T. “Everything In Its Path” Touchstone 1976
I1, http://durkheim.itgo.com/suicide.html, Dunman, L. Joe “The Emile Durkheim Archive”, 1999
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