anomie

How To Use anomie In A Sentence

• A traveling show focuses on his ‘Anomie’ series, a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the 20th century
• Its ethics road is anomie and attribution.
• This sense of "anomie" would be called "alienation" by a later generation of Marxists, existentialist and student radicals in the 1960s.
• This youthful triangle becomes the centre of the story, a generation adrift because their parents, too, have lost their moorings in a suburban sea of affluence and anxious anomie.
• ] Dr Rhinehart's alienation and anomie apparently reached such a degree that he lost a single identity and became a multiple personality. THE DICE MAN
• But governments these days face anomie, impatience, generalised discontent, which are less amenable than they once were to the recompense of doctrinal zeal, for the simple reason that it does not exist.
• Sociologists, such as Durkheim, Marx, and Weber have all discussed the central problem of modernity with their ideas about anomie, alienation, and the iron cage of bureaucracy.
• But this only produces increased anomie and ultimately stasis.
• 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. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
• 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. The Guardian World News