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

[snitsnat]

criminology is heavily influenced by Durkheim's theory of anomie -- 
integration into the community or lack thereof. the whole sub-discipline of 
research on deliquency, deviance, etc. based on Durkheim and the structural 
functionalist extension of his work. that's all I meant. it wasn't an 
attack. what is interesting, on your account, is that the suicide bombings 
are both the result of too much integration into their lifestyle enclave 
(sacrifice to a higher cause) and not enough integration into the 
communities in which they were born.

At 02:35 PM 7/14/2005, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>Kelley:
> > sounds like Durkheim:
> >
> > http://durkheim.itgo.com/suicide.html
> >
> > (although I thought researchers have generally tossed this one out?)
> >
>
>Not really - this is based on studies of delinquency by Shaw and McKay,
>Hirshi, and Katz with plenty of empirical support - more than any other
>theory of delinquency.  The problem with Durkheim is that he had good ideas
>but applied them too broadly, to all aspects of social life, which set him
>for a certain failure because he had more variables than cases, so to speak.
>Narrowing the scope down to delinquency and social groups rather than
>societies helped to solve that problem.  It is a while since I TA'd
>criminology in grad school, but what I remember is that the social control
>theory (Hirshi) seems to have the strongest empirical support.
>
>Wojtek
>
>
>
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