anomie - A social condition in which previously established norms or behavior have been dissipated or rejected; consequently, there is no effective social control of individual behavior. The concept was named an explicated by French sociologist Emile Durkheim (1858-1917).
Source - American Government & Politics, Harper Collins Dictionary - Jay M. Shafritz-1993
1 comments:
Well that explains some of the problems our country is currently confronted with.
L Grathwohl
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