Bert Cohler = Totally Sweet

He's got grillz. No lie. Gold teeth.

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So, I don't know how many of you besides the UofCers have read much Rousseau and Durkheim, but you probably know that they are pretty intense guys. They've both got, you know, a lot to say. Rousseau is mostly full of shit and while he has interesting ideas, he would totally fail this class if he took it. Durkheim, on the other hand, is my new boyfriend. Collective effervescence FTW! This is all beside the point though.

This point is: Worst. Prompt. Ever.

Rousseau and Durkheim share a concern for religiously-enforced social coherence rather than individual autonomy, yet both also profess a belief in reason and freedom. How does each deal with these contradictions? You answer should address at least three (3) of the following issues in a comparative manner (it is o.k. if on only one topic you give more attention to Durkheim than Rousseau).

1. The contrast (especially with regard to individual-collective life and consciousness) between a primal (“nature,” “mechanical solidarity”) and a more civilized state.
2. The relationship between religious and rational/scientific perceptions of the world.
3. Law (Rousseau) and religion (Durkheim) as the basis for maintaining social cohesion (from the perspective of both participants and analysts).
4. The social scientist as “moralist.”

OH MY GOD. Let me point out that, lest you did not notice, we are to address three of these questions in our paper, not just pick one to consider as a prompt.

Additionally:

• Each of these ideas is a goddamn dissertation at the very very least. In reality, they are entire books. Actually, there probably are entire books. Probably not comparing the two, but that just means there are two books.
• THIS IS A 6-8 PAGE ESSAY. Firstly this kind of obnoxiously long because it's just sosc and it's not even the final paper. More annoying, did I mention that it would take three PhD dissertations to begin to address this?
• Goddamn it.
• Most importantly, and this is probably the least obvious...none of these questions make any sense at all. They are simply nonsensical.

Thanks, dude.

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I'm definitely that kid in my sosc class. Shit. Someone do the world a favor and shoot me now.

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I have missed you!! I forgot how boring life is without gmail and rss feeds. MacLab is closed. I am on a stupid pc outside of it that is really really slow.

Stuff:

1. I got kitties! I will post pictures when my internet is existent (hopefully Wednesday). I will talk more about them, too, because they are very interesting kitties.

2. I beasted my linguistics class. Well, I mean, I got an A. And I passed (it was pass/fail) my philosophy class. (Note that this makes my major GPA a 4.0, haha. Yay for only being one class into my major.)

3. Now I have the incredibly exciting task ahead of me which is summer social sciences!!! Yay for Self, Culture, and Society for nine hours a week! My first class begins in approximately 27 minutes.

4. Gabe is rocking Chicago for three weeks for the U of C high school summer session. It's badass.

5. Jon is stinky. Ok, well...not really. Actually he smells really good. I have decided he is not going to break up with me. You hear me Jon? You might try. You will fail. Sorry, tough luck.

6. Bob Loblaw Lobs Law Bomb.

On to the land of sosc now...

Labels: arrested development, Gabe, jon, kitties, linguistics, school, sosc