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Write short note: Anomie.

  • UPSC 1997
  • Sociological Thinkers

Anomie (Greek a-nomos, "without law") is Émile Durkheim's term for a condition in which society's norms fail to regulate individual desires and relations. It describes a state of society, not a personal mood. Durkheim used it in two related ways, and later sociologists reworked it.

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  • Anomie in The Division of Labour in Society (1893)
  • Anomie in Suicide (1897)
  • Later developments
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