anomie
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈænəmiː/
Noun

anomie

  1. Alienation or social instability caused by erosion of standards and values.
    • 2019; Kathryn Edin, Timothy Nelson, Andrew Cherlin, and Robert Francis; "The Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men"; Journal of Economic Perspectives:
      This is in line with sociologist Emile Durkheim's seminal study Suicide (1897 [1997]), which argued that "anomie", or normlessness, could explain variations in suicide rates across countries and time.
    • 2020, Freda Adler, The Legacy of Anomie Theory, Routledge (ISBN 9781000675795)
      Although the hypotheses on what causes anomie are different and reflect the social conditions of different societies, the concept itself refers to the same idea/phenomenon: a weakening of the guiding power of social norms, a loosened social control.
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