What is anomie in sociology? How can we understand this concept using contemporary examples?

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To connect anomie with Durkheim's "Suicide" (since that is what it looks like you are being expected to understand!) -- anomie refers to a lack of regulation of individual desire by society (Spaulding and Simpson trans, p. 249). Durkheim has a strong sense that people must be protected from their own desires and a society which does not serve this regulatory role will see higher rates of anomic suicide. This particular work includes an underlying theory of social integration and regulation. Roughly, egoistic suicide is connected with a lack of social integration (or an excess of individualism) (p. 209), altruistic suicide is connected with an excess of social integration (or a dearth of individual identity) (p. 221), and anomic suicide is connected with a lack of regulation of individual desire by society (p. 249). In this way, Durkheim proposes suicide not as a product of individual pathologies, but as extreme forms of otherwise normal states (regulation and integration).

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What is anomie in sociology? How can we understand this concept using contemporary examples?

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Anomie is the effect that society has on an individual when such an individual feels outside of society or not a part of it. Some contemporary examples of this idea include those who become hermits or shut ins, or even those who, after having feelings of loneliness and/or inacceptance, decide to go on shooting sprees and eventually kill themselves. Anomie is most connected with the functionalist theory and has some loop holes. For example, we find that those that are supposedly anomic actually group together to form a sub or anti culture of society, which is in itself redefining society and giving those people acceptance to define themselves in a new social situation.

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In positivist sociology, social facts are the social structures and cultural norms and values that are external to, of making sociology an all-encompassing discipline that contained all others—'the queen of sciences', in his terms— Durkheim was less ambitious. Durkheim and his close associate Husain aimed to set sociology on a firm, positivist footing, as a science among other sciences. He reasoned that In Durkheim's view, sociology was simply 'the science of social facts'. The task of the sociologist, then, was to search for correlations between social facts and thus reveal laws. Having discovered the laws of social structure, the sociologist is then able to determine if any given society is 'healthy' or 'pathological' and prescribe appropriate remedies.

Durkheim's work on the 'social fact' of suicide rates is famous. By carefully examining police suicide statistics in different districts, Durkheim was able to 'demonstrate' that Catholic communities have a lower suicide rate than Protestants, and ascribe this to a social (as opposed to individual) cause. This was groundbreaking work and remains much-cited even today. Initially, Durkheim's 'discovery of social facts' was seen as significant because it promised to make it possible to study the behaviour of entire societies, rather than just of particular individuals. Modern sociologists refer to Durkheim's studies for two quite different purposes, however:

* As graphic demonstrations of how careful the social researcher must be to ensure that data gathered for analysis is accurate. Durkheim's reported suicide rates were, it is now clear, largely an artifact of the way in which particular deaths were classified as 'suicide' or 'non-suicide' by different communities. What he had actually discovered was not different suicide rates at all—it was different ways of thinking about suicide.

* As an entry point into the study of social meaning, and the way in which apparently identical individual acts often cannot be classified empirically. Social acts (even such an apparently private and individual act as suicide), in this modern view, are always seen (and classified) by social actors. Discovering the 'social facts', it follows, is generally neither possible nor desirable, but discovering the way in which individuals perceive and classify particular acts offers a great deal of insight.

A total social fact [fait social total] is "an activity that has implications throughout society, in the economic, legal, political, and religious spheres." (Sedgewick 2002: 95) "Diverse strands of social and psychological life are woven together through what he [Mauss] comes to call 'total social facts'. A total social fact is such that it informs and organises seemingly quite distinct practices and institutions." (Edgar 2002:157) The term was popularized by Marcel Mauss in his

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