anomie

How To Use anomie In A Sentence

• The postwar economic development of Colombia reflects the pervasive social anomie.
• Sexual morality issues of adolescent students are becoming increasingly prominent due to the anomie of traditional sexual morality and the alienation of public concepts.
• Liberation has turned sour producing anomie and alienation, severely undermining any sense of collective responsibility or response.
• He expresses concern that a society that ceases to respect the ‘res publica’ and loses all faith in a ‘national philosophy’ may well drift into an asocial and culturally vacuous anomie.
• 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
• Complaints of attendant social breakdown, of anomie and alienation, of the dissolution of marriage and households, of the decline of religion, were commonly - and perhaps too glibly - voiced.
• The phenomenon of anomie - namelessness, rootlessness, homelessness - that so delights the sociologists. A RODENT OF DOUBT
• Liberation has turned sour producing anomie and alienation, severely undermining any sense of collective responsibility or response.
• When the male-female pairs aren't demonstrating strident misalliance or hopeless anomie, they confront one another as units destined for mutual inscrutability.
• Sociologists define anomie as a state where normal values are confused, unclear or not present.