1.On Durkheim, Why do the U.S.A have a high suicide rate use Durkheim's two notions Egoistic and Anomie suicide? Durkheim insisted that individuals were born into an existing social structure consisting of institutions, norms, rules, roles, customs and ideals to which they conformed. The U.S.A is no exception because lady liberty follows a social structure. The high rate of suicide is because of Individual Isolation. The breakup of the family could …showed first 75 words of 1056 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1056 total…Catholic Church was corrupt. They were taking money from parishioners and telling them that there soul would be saved and sent to heaven if they gave a donation. Durkheim saw all this and said it was wrong but he realizes as well as Weber that there will be a decline of religion. Disenchantment with the world will happen. With the decline of religious belief in the modern world came both intellectual freedom and moral malaise.