Anomie, also spelled anomy, in societies or individuals, a condition of instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values or from a lack of purpose or ideals. ... He believed that one type of suicide (anomic) resulted from the breakdown of the social standards necessary for regulating behaviour.
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Anomie in a Sentence ?
- Carl claims that the children of gangsters are prone to anomie because they were never raised with a sense of right and wrong.
- As society's standards weaken and people are affected by anomie, natural societal bonds that we take for granted begin to corrode.
What is Enomia?
Anomia is defined as a language specific disturbance arising after brain damage whose main symptom is the inability of retrieving known words. From: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2001.
