Part one of term paper
Close to one thousand people died at Jonestown. The members of the , under the direction of the Reverend Jim Jones, fed a poison-laced drink to their children, administered the potion to their infants, and drank it themselves. Their bodies were found lying together, arm in arm; more than 900 perished. How could such a tragedy occur? How and ...

Part two of term paper
... and society to try to explain how the People's Temple erupted and eventually turned into the most horrifying act of mass suicide ever recorded. Jonestown was a society of it's own, a Utopia within Anormal@ society. According to Durkheim, society is a Asocial organism@ composed of a number of social parts or social organs. These parts work or function together to maintain the existence of the whole organism or society. We can explain the emergence of the People's Temple by simply using Durkheim's def ...