s that "the absence of all economic discipline cannot fail to extend its effect beyond the economic world, and consequently weaken public morality" (p.79.) This is the description of juridical and moral anomie in which modern society found itself.
             In Suicide and Modernity Durkheim expands on the concept of anomie. Whereas he previously described a modern society in a state of anomie, he describes here anomie at the individual level. He portrays a human being with unlimited desires and unattainable goals. "The more we have, the more we want" (p.83.) Therefore, by pursuing an unattainable goal, we condemn ourselves to perpetual unhappiness.
             The remedy is to limit our passions and desires. Durkheim states that "society alone can play this moderating role" (p.84), because it is the only moral power superior to the individual. He contends that members of a social class, by consensus, know their upper and lower limits; they know what is appropriate for their class. "Society fixes with relative precision the maximum degree of ease of living to which each social class may legitimately asp
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