anomie
pronunciation
How to pronounce anomie in British English:
UK [ˈænəmi]
How to pronounce anomie in American English:
US [ˈænəmi]
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- Noun:
- personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation
- lack of moral standards in a society
Word Origin
- anomie (n.)
- "absence of accepted social values," 1933, from Durkheim's "Suicide" (1897); a reborrowing with French spelling of anomy.
Example
- 1. Institutional analysis on the anomie of national school-running behavior .
- 2. Anxiety and resentment are turning people inward ; the chinese are being consumed by anomie , a listless sense that life has little meaning .
- 3. Since 2000 , when he burst onto china 's literary scene at the age of 17 with his first best seller , triple gate , han has shrewdly mined a seam of youthful resentment and anomie through his stories of anguished characters in their late teens and early 20s .
- 4. The more social anomie , the suicide rate is higher .
- 5. When people can not use legitimate means to achieve these goals , anomie arises .