Discrepancy

According to Durkheim anomic suicide is caused by any great disturbance in the social equilibrium, which can cause a rise in suicide rates. Anomic suicide is more prevalent in modern societies because in traditional societies people are more likely to accept their fate. In modern society anomic suicide is more likely amongst the rich because the poor, better than anyone else, know the art of self-restraint. Durkheim quoted “ From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems value-less by comparison with the dreams of fevered imagination… A thirst arises from novelties, unfamiliar pleasures, nameless sensations, all of which lose their savor once known. Henceforth, one has no strength to endure the least reverse. “

Merton proposed a typology of deviant behavior. A system that classified someone according to his or her common characteristic. The first typology is conformity, which is a social order that is maintained because of model behavior of members that represent the cultural patterns, even if secularly changing. The individual deeply believes in the achievement ethic aspires to it and aspires to it, and has the institutional means to get there. It is the most common and widely diffused. It keeps society “rolling” according to Durkheim. According to Durkheim society does not exist if interacting individuals share no deposit of values. The second one is innovation, which occurs when the individual has assimilated the culture emphasis upon the goal without equally internalizing the institutional norms governing ways and means for its attainment. It is the emphasis on success goals then wealth and power. The third one is ritualism, which is an individual who abandons or scales down the lofty cultural goals of achievement. Basically, they temper their aspirations to a point where they are achievable and inevitably