anomie
IPA: ˈænʌmi
noun
- Alienation or social instability caused by erosion of standards and values.
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Examples of "anomie" in Sentences
- Disobedience is a moral and civic response to governmental "anomie".
- But in sociology, we use the term anomie, the sense of normlessness that comes just like the spiraling down.
- What the minister, in his ignorance and desperation, called "anomie", political and legal theory examines under the term "civil disobedience".
- If "anomie" exists in Greece today, it is found in the separation between law and democracy and the destruction of any sense of the common good.
- When it came to alienation, or what he preferred to call anomie, Durkheim was convinced that such shiftlessness—moral isolation, in effect—was caused by an absence of conventions and a rejection of the society that instituted them.
- Leyburn points out that since the Scotch-Irish were never a "minority," in the sense that their values differed radically from the norms of their areas of settlement, they never suffered the normlessness which Durkheim calls anomie -- the absence of clear standards to follow.
- In his theory of suicide, he highlights the situation of "anomie" to refer to the circumstance of individuals whose relationship to the social whole is weak, and he explains differences in suicide rates across societies as the result of different levels of solidarity and its opposite, anomie.
- This unnatural, inorganic, materialistic way of living, coupled with a marked decline in society's moral and ethical standards -- what the French call anomie -- has created a kind of pathology that produces pain and emptiness, for which addictive behavior becomes the primary symptom and consumption the preferred drug of choice.
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