5 Reasons I Love Mindhunter by Ellison Cooper. Crime.
3. It shows why the social sciences matter.
I’m an anthropologist, but my background is in cultural neurobiology, which means I’m interested in behavior. How do our neurology, genetics, and upbringing influence how we act? To study that, we need the social sciences like psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Mindhunter seems to agree!
I literally almost cried when two characters discussed my favorite social philosopher, Emile Durkheim, over drinks (it’s not strange that I have a favorite social philosopher, right…?). And then they brought in the theories of sociologist Erving Goffman, who studied the masks we all wear to project an image outward.
I love that this show trusts their audience enough to bring in some of these very abstract concepts and show how they influenced the FBI as they sought to understand serial murder.
Rhetoric of Detective 