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Anomie, Egoism, Suicide, and Fatalism In order to answer the question posed it is important to firstly define what is meant by the important terms, we can then analyse Durkheim´s views and the way that they have been used to explain the complex issues surrounding suicide. The Oxford Dictionary of Sociology defines anomie as 'An absence, breakdown, confusion or conflict in the norms of a society.´ Marshall B. Clinard stated that anomie is " A sense of confusion and (is when) people become disorientated from their world". Anomie is also one of the ways that Durkheim categorised the different types of suicide. Durkheim believed that social causes were the explanation for suicide and they could be examined and separated into four different categories, namely anomic, altruistic, egoistic and fatalistic, by their differences and similarities, Durkheim also states that of being morphological, his classification would be aetiological. (Durkheim, 1952 p147) Durkheim believed that anomic...

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