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anomies
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a state of personal instability, isolation, or anxiety caused by a breakdown of social norms or regulation
- After losing his job, he experienced a deep sense of anomie and purposelessness.
- Rapid social change often produces feelings of anomie among citizens.
- The novel captures the protagonist's anomie in a disintegrating moral landscape.
- Urban life can create anomie by weakening traditional community ties.
- Sociologists link rising crime rates to widespread anomie.
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the condition of a society in which moral standards, laws, or values have broken down or lost authority
- The collapse of trust in institutions led to a period of national anomie.
- Durkheim described anomie as a collective loss of moral direction.
- Economic inequality can breed anomie in modern societies.
- The revolution created anomie by overturning established norms.
- Media saturation contributes to cultural anomie by blurring moral boundaries.
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