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It is normlessness, Durkheim felt, that led to deviant behaviour.
The GOP is trying their ages old ploy of terrifying the US. 2008
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But in sociology, we use the term anomie, the sense of normlessness that comes just like the spiraling down.
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Durkheim recognised the danger of anomie or normlessness.
a morality play Bill Kerr 2008
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Some 68 percent felt meaningless to a great extent, while 71 percent indicated that there was a high degree of normlessness in the electricity utility.
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Moral inarticulacy in the face of war is itself a moral stance one that rejects the possibility of reason, accepts normlessness in international affairs, and capitulates to cynicism.
Statement from American Scholars Supporting the U.S. Government's War on Terrorism 1994
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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.
The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography George D. Wolf
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Sociologist Emile Durkheim in his classic work on suicides had related the rate of suicide prevalent in any society to the concept of anomie, which he defined as a state of normlessness.
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Sociologist Emile Durkheim in his classic work on suicides had related the rate of suicide prevalent in any society to the concept of anomie, which he defined as a state of normlessness.
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Anomie ” normlessness ” is now a chief factor making cities unworkable, whether it appears as the hopelessness and delinquency of poor people or as the privatism and negativism of the middle class fleeing to suburbs.
A Letter to John Lindsay Goodman, Paul 1965
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an·o·mie [an-uh-me] n social unrest or normlessness; malaise, alienation and purposelessness. belle [bel] n a popular and charming woman; especially: a woman whose charm and beauty make her a favorite.
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