Durkheim recognised the danger of anomie or normlessness. From Wordnik.com. [a morality play] Reference
It is normlessness, Durkheim felt, that led to deviant behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [The GOP is trying their ages old ploy of terrifying the US.] Reference
But in sociology, we use the term anomie, the sense of normlessness that comes just like the spiraling down. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2008] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Statement from American Scholars Supporting the U.S. Government's War on Terrorism] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
Durkheim ... warned of the dangers of anomie (normlessness), and wrote, in 1897, that "Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. From Wordnik.com. [In an African Minute] Reference
(normlessness), and wrote, in 1897, that "Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
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