[lbo-talk] They lived in the next street from me

snitsnat snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
Thu Jul 14 10:35:09 PDT 2005


sounds like Durkheim:

http://durkheim.itgo.com/suicide.html

(although I thought researchers have generally tossed this one out?)

At 11:01 AM 7/14/2005, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


>The half assimilated immigrants that James describes fit this model quite
>well - they are alienated from the community of their parents - and thus not
>subject to strict social controls exercised by that community - yet not
>fully integrated to the Western community and thus not subject to social
>control mechanisms that it employs. Hence their propensity toward
>delinquency and hyper-violence.

"Finish your beer. There are sober kids in India."

-- rwmartin



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