CGS SS 101 Chapter 5: Anomic Suicide Durkheim [McGrath Reader]
15 Jan 2019
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The common sense interpretation of behavior is the individualist view, even though we are socialized. If a sociologist were to comment on a individual"s behavior they would ask: what kind of society produces this behavior? . Through the process of socialization , people absorb the norms of their societies and create what. Break down of the collective conscience leads to anomie /deregulation. Modernization is dangerous because in a rapidly changing society there isn"t a collective. Durkheim"s concern modernization will lead to anomie and a society undergoing anomie would. How is the anomic condition of a society connected to the suicidal act of the individual? . Happiness/existence can"t occur unless ones needs are sufficiently proportioned to ones means. (needs : what can be granted) In no society are the equally satisfied through the different ranks of the social hierarchy. To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
