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Anomie is a "condition in which society provides little moral guidance to individuals".[1] It is the breakdown of social bonds between an individual and the community, e.g., under unruly scenarios resulting in fragmentation of social identity and rejection of self-regulatory values.[2][citation needed] It was popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his influential book Suicide (1897). Durkheim never uses the term normlessness; rather, he describes anomie as "derangement", and "an insatiable will".[3] Durkheim used the term "the malady of the infinite" because desire without limit can never be fulfilled, it only becomes more intense.[4]
For Durkheim anomie arises more generally from a mismatch between personal or group standards and wider social standards, or from the lack of a social ethic, which produces moral deregulation and an absence of legitimate aspirations. This is a nurtured condition:
For Durkheim anomie arises more generally from a mismatch between personal or group standards and wider social standards, or from the lack of a social ethic, which produces moral deregulation and an absence of legitimate aspirations. This is a nurtured condition:
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Anomie is a "condition in which society provides little moral guidance
to individuals".[1] It is the breakdown of social bonds between an
individual and the community, e.g., under unruly scenarios resulting in
fragmentation of social identity and rejection of self-regulatory
values.[2][citation needed] It was popularized by French sociologist
Émile Durkheim in his influential book Suicide (1897). Durkheim never
uses the term normlessness; rather, he describes anomie as
"derangement", and "an insatiable will"
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