a high rate of vertical mobility may produce individual and societalanomie(a term coined by the French sociologistÉmile Durkheim). The individual experiencing anomie feels socially isolated and anxious; in a larger, societalcontext, generally accepted beliefs and standards of conduct are weakened or...
The term was introduced by the FrenchsociologistÉmile Durkheimin his study ofsuicide. He believed that one type of suicide (anomic) resulted from the breakdown of the social standards necessary for regulatingbehaviour. When asocial systemis in a state of anomie, common values and common meanings...
Sociology was born as an attempt to delimit an object of investigation offered by society as a social reality. The ambition was that of "treating the social facts as things" (Durkheim) or of understanding and explaining the social relati... P Kemp - 《Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of th...