Note-taking for Principles of Empirical Research with Catherine Voulgarides Durkheim’s sociological classic sounds so much more sophisticated in the original French: “Le Suicide.” All jokes aside, this is a personal topic for me, due its impact on my friends and extended family, not to mention artists I admire.
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Intersectionality
Note-taking for Principles of Empirical Research with Catherine Voulgarides. Images of interesting intersections from various sources. Hill, C. P., & Bilge, S. (2016). Intersectionality.
Music in a capitalist culture
Midterm paper for Learning of Culture with Lisa Stulberg Max Weber locates the roots of capitalism in vestigial puritanical Protestantism. Émile Durkheim, in turn, gives a theory of how that Protestantism arose in the first place. In this paper, I ask two questions. First: can Weber’s and Durkheim’s theories of religion be extended to explain culture …
Music Matters chapter nine
Public-facing note taking on Music Matters by David Elliott and Marissa Silverman for my Philosophy of Music Education class. Research into music psychology (and simply attending to your own experience, and to common sense) shows that music arouses emotions. However, there is no conclusive way to explain why or how. To make things more complicated, it’s perfectly possible to perceive an emotion in …
Émile Durkheim – Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Note-taking for Learning of Culture with Lisa Stulberg This week, we read another cornerstone of the sociology canon: Émile Durkheim on where religion comes from. The book is very much a product of its time, with continual and annoying references to “primitive” religions and peoples. No question that Durkheim’s methodology doesn’t pass contemporary muster. But his theoretical insights are …
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