Anomie
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...disorganization, and a divorce between socially valid goals and available means for achieving them. Introduced into sociology by Emile Durkheim in his study Suicide (1897), anomie also refers to the psychological condition of rootlessness, futility, anxiety, and...