Durkheim on power and holiness

Holiness and Responsibility

English as well as French differentiates the term holy from the term sacred – in fact, Levinas' book "Du sacré au saint" is translated as "From the Sacred to the Holy". This is illustrative of the extent to which the meanings of the two words differ. God is called "The Holy One Blessed be He", but we would find it peculiar to refer to Him as "The Sacred One". By contrast, when referring to plac...

The Paradox of Paradise: Durkheim on Dubai

Emile Durkheim On Crime And Punishment ( An Exegesis )

Durkheim Project Data Analysis Report

This report describes the suicidality prediction models created under the DARPA DCAPS program[7]. The models were built primarily from unstructured text (freeformat clinician notes) for several hundred patient records obtained from the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). The models were constructed using a genetic programming algorithm applied to bag-of-words and bag-of-phrases datasets. The ...

The New Durkheim: Bourdieu and the State

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