Anomie, Egoisme and the Modern World: Suicide, Durkheim and Weber, Modern Cultural Traditions and the First and Second Protestant Ethos (Micro HV 6545 M16 1978)

A detailed study of Durkeim’s schemas of anomic and egoistic suicide with the purpose of demonstrating that Durkheim shifted on his analytical axis from the notion that the absence of moral discipline generates modern suicides, to the more significant insight that anomie and egoisme are generated by the prescence of extreme modern cultural sanctions. (KB)