Overview
Papers: The paper will test your ability to analyze theoretical arguments. You will turn in a short, roughly two-to-three-page response paper that addresses the readings of that theme. With regard to paper questions, I would like you to ask and answer a question about what you see as the most important ideas in the readings. Understanding the readings well enough to ask a good question about them is part of the assignment.
Those texts are:
Gateway Reading
Collins, Lauren. "Reinventing Grief in an Era of Enforced Isolation." The New Yorker, May 11, 2020. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/11/reinventing-grief-in-an-era-of-enforced-isolation.
Ducharme, Jamie. "More Millennials Are Dying 'Deaths of Despair,' as Overdose and Suicide Rates Climb." Time, June 14, 2019. https://web-a-ebscohost-com.chipublib.idm.oclc.org/ehost/detail/detail?vid=6&sid=f6538ed5-4615-4ba3-ac5d-bb61f35e6ab9%40sessionmgr4006&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=137012132&db=f6h.
Theoretical Reading
Durkheim, Emile. "Suicide and Fertility: A Study of Moral Statistics [1888]." European Journal of Population / Revue Européenne de Démographie 8, no. 3 (1992): 175-97.