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IT'S AN ANOMIC WORLD...
"Anomic" is the adjectival form of "anomie," which means...
- from ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA online: "Anomie... in societies or individuals, a condition of instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values or from a lack of purpose or ideals.
The term was introduced by the French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his study of suicide. He believed that one type of suicide (anomic) resulted from the breakdown of social standards that people need to regulate their behaviour. When a social system is in a state of anomie, common values and common meanings are no longer understood or accepted, and new values and meanings have not developed. Such a society produces, in many of its members, psychological states characterized by a sense of futility, lack of purpose, and emotional emptiness and despair. Striving is considered useless, because there is no accepted definition of what is desirable."
Something more about anomie...
Some cool sites that talk about anomie...
- Swiss Academy for Development: "The loss of cultural diversity in the face of economic globalization or political persecution not only results in the loss of cultural identity and diversity but the growth of humankind's fastest growing disease, anomie, the loss of those cultural reference points that make life worth living", wrote G. Monbiot in The Guardian of 24 August 1995 in essence. This was exactly the conviction which brought social scientists from different parts of the world together to try a most ambiguous and risky adventure: To measure and to explain anomie in different cultures, in different economies, in different parts of the world."
Some cool sites that ARE anomic or make pretensions to same...
- Anomicism: "anomic diaries..." -- Something to do with alternative music and creative writing, written by what sounds like a bunch of grad students in San Francisco (home of City Lights bookstore! Ginsberg lives!)
- BLeb.NeT: An anomic but graphically and conceptually beautiful site. My guess: a radical geek with a corporate webmaster day job. Highly recommended for those with "click-through fever."
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