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Title: Anomie


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Anomie
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Emile Durkheim
  • Modern society
  • "normlessness" (a-nomos)
  • Deviance Poorly articulated or non-existent
    rules of conduct
  • human nature innately desirous
  • society must set limits

3
Durkheim Suicide
  • Relationship between social structure deviance
  • Egoistic
  • Western societies
  • Individualism
  • Altruistic
  • Self is unimportant vis-à-vis society
  • Fatalistic
  • Slavery

4
Durkheim Suicide
  • Anomic
  • Weak collective conscience
  • Rapid social/status change
  • Modernity (again) nearly-permanent state of
    normlessness
  • division of labor
  • separation of home and workplace
  • decline of guild, church
  • individualism

5
Robert Mertons Anomie
  • NOT normlessness
  • unlimited aspiration
  • Strain
  • cultural definitions of success
  • legitimate means of achieving success

6
Mertons Anomie
Culturally Approved Goals Legitimate Means
Conformity
Innovation _
Ritualism _
Retreatism _ _
Rebellion /_ /_
7
Richard Cloward Lloyd Ohlin
  • Delinquency Opportunity
  • Illegitimate means can be blocked
  • Subcultures
  • Criminal
  • Conflict
  • Retreatist
  • Double failure

8
Social Control in Anomie
  • Durkheim Return to Moral Order
  • Create a secular moral order
  • Voluntary and occupational associations
  • Educational Institutions

9
Social Control in Anomie
  • Merton Two Options
  • Reduce Aspiration
  • Increase access to legitimate means of success
  • Mobilization for Youth (1960's Cloward and Ohlin)

10
Evaluating Anomie
  • Strengths
  • Empirical support
  • Merton
  • Beyond individualistic explanations
  • Weaknesses
  • Ignored white collar crime
  • Over-emphasizes consensus
  • limited definition of success
  • Is all crime and deviance economically motivated?
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