The Ruling Classes

To Emile Durkheim men are like creatures, who never feel satisfied and always want more than they or someone else have. He compared humans to other animals, only people are intelligent and because of that, they always want more. This natural insatiability of the human makes him unsatisfied when biological needs are fulfilled. For this reason, society imposes limits by establishing the moral norms and needs. The ruling classes set limits through a regulative constitutional force, creating rules, by supporting them through law. Considerably, it helps to distinguish the extreme limits when an individual behave in certain way.

Durkheim also thinks that when social regulations break down, the control of society on individual particular behaviour no longer effective. When an individual is left to their own actions and manners in terms of performing in particular way with others. He named this condition anomie, which means a lack of understanding when dealing with moral norms or not feeling the limits, which are accepted by the society. This refers only to the social structure and not to an individual state of mind. These circumstances are no longer regulating an individual desires; hence a person is left without moral guidance in the search for his desires.

Anomie or normlessness cannot be proven as possible, because in some societies those results are greater or lesser in terms of normal moral regulations. He also highlights the elements when social change can create anomie in whole ore in some parts of the population. He also thought that anomie is causing harm to people and to a social order. For example, when depression or sudden loss of some values affects men, it may lead him to an experience of being excluded from the group he once belonged. Also when life changes to a better way, usually an individual do not know how to adapt in this transition.

Initially, he underlines different types of suicides in the society. Sometimes poverty stops