anomie Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˈæn.əm.i]
  • Us [ ˈæn.əm.i]

Meaning of anomie In English

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  • The role of anomie, social upheaval, and political protest is largely presented as marginal to democratization.

  • Thus, the dangers of 'anomie' and the need for 'group identity' were addressed by promoting institutional and 'imagined' ties between individual workers and trade unions.

  • The scene has the potential to avoid both the tight restrictions of traditional musical subcultures and the anomie of isolated musical occurrences facilitated by large multinationals.

  • The lack of sensibly fixed and controlled norms in all domains of public life resulted in widespread anomie that was felt particularly by the common people.

  • This was a world that prized individuality and privacy within sociability, and hence feared that this new modern selfhood could easily degenerate into secrecy, anomie, solipsism, and fantasy.

  • There are even indications of urban anomie.

  • In many ways the model is reminiscent of a state of social anomie, in which isolated individuals without historical ties drift from one brief encounter to another.

  • The anomie found within the factory culture is bound to be one of the big factors in industrial accidents.

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