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Definitions of anomie in various dictionaries:
noun - personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation
noun - lack of moral standards in a society
Social instability caused by steady erosion of standards and values.
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| lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group. |
| a state of no moral or social principles in a person or in society |
| Lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group. |
| Social instability caused by erosion of standards and values. |
| Alienation and purposelessness experienced by a person or a class as a result of a lack of standards, values, or ideals: "We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie and rage ( Charles Krauthammer). |
| lack of moral standards in a society |
| personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation |
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| Anomie () is a "condition in which society provides little moral guidance to individuals". It is the breakdown of social bonds between an individual and the community, e.g., under unruly scenarios resulting in fragmentation of social identity and rejection of self-regulatory values.The term is commonly understood to mean normlessness, and believed to have been popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his influential book Suicide (1897). However, Durkheim first introduces the concept of anomie in his 1893 work 'The Division of Labour In Society.' Durkheim never used the term normlessness; rather, he described anomie as "derangement", and "an insatiable will". Durkheim used the term "the malady of the infinite" because desire without limit can never be fulfilled; it only becomes more intense.For Durkheim, anomie arises more generally from a mismatch between personal or group standards and wider social standards, or from the lack of a social ethic, which produces moral deregula |