Ethan Parker47 said:The concept of anomie was coined by French sociologist Emile Durkheim. It basically refers to what a professor might call a "breakdown of normative structure"—essentially the inability to recognize new values and norms during periods of social upheaval, combined with the fact that old values and norms have lost their relevance.
Plus, it's also the name of the sociology student association over at the Slavic Studies department.
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So, here is what Google says about the term: "Anomie is actually an interpretation of the sociological definition (anomie = alienation—ed. note)."
And here is how the Brookings Institution puts it: "Two terms describing states of social pathology apply to conditions that hinder flow: anomie and alienation.
Anomie—literally 'lack of rules'—is the term French sociologist Emil Dirk used to describe a societal state where behavioral norms have become scrambled. When it is no longer clear what is permitted and what isn't, or when general values become uncertain, behavior becomes unstable and senseless. Those who rely on social rules to organize their own consciousness end up anxious. Anomic situations can arise when an economy collapses or when one culture destroys another, but they can also occur when progress happens too rapidly, rendering old values like thrift and hard work irrelevant."
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