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Each individual is born into a socially-organized network that both teaches and requires behavior and conforming beliefs

most part, individuals do not feel or recognize these coercive forces, and may attribute their choices and beliefs to internal processes

oercive influence of social organization on our morality and behavior both by describing what we are born into

e external is necessarily primary to the existence of an individual belief

born into familie

onstrained in every respect by the organization of law

ustoms of the societies in which we live. The businessman who tries to conduct business outside of the organized economy will fail

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eligious leaders teach us what to believe and what to think about right and wrong

4Similarly, the lack of strongly aligned family structures or political structure signals a dangerous lack of integration.

challenges the view held by psychologists of his time, who maintained that suicide could be explained by individual psychological characteristic

This pursuit of knowledge, however, is not the cause of suicide rates to rise. Rather, it signals a lack of integration of the religious society’s norms and values.

belongs to a weakly cohesive society, and experiences a change in regulation, usually during a period of rapid change or crisis.

or a choice

s he describes, for society to regulate individuals’ cohesion into the society, “the passions first must be limited” (248). This is usually done with an establishment of social codes, laws and rules.

Anomic suicide

either integrated nor regulate

e wants sociology to be more scientific and move from the realm of subjectivity to objectivity

primacy of the “social fact.

Anomic Suicide