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	Anomie Encyclopedia Article @ StylishInteriors.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Anomie, in contemporary English, means a condition or malaise in individuals, characterized by an absence or diminution of standards or values.
		But, as used by Émile Durkheim and later theorists, anomie is a reaction against, or a retreat from, the regulatory social controls of society, and is a completely separate concept from a situation of anarchy which is an absence of effective rulers or leaders.
		The word, which can also be spelled anomy, has also been used to apply to societies or groups of people within a society, who suffer from chaos due to lack of commonly recognized explicit or implicit rules of good conduct, or worse, to the reign of rules promoting isolation or even predation rather than cooperation.
	stylishinteriors.com /encyclopedia/Anomie (941 words)

	Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
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		SEE ALSO: Anomie, Collective Conscience, Durkheim, Émile, Parsons, Talcott, Structural Functionalism
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	Integrative Criminology
		In Power, Crime, and Mystification, Box (1983) provided a conceptual integration of how corporate crime overcomes environmental uncertainties by illegally reducing or eliminating competition through fraud, bribery, manipulation, price-fixing, and so on.
		Box employed anomie and strain as the motivational sources behind corporate crime.
		He argues that "motivational strain" is translated into illegal acts through differential associations and corporate subcultures where elites learn to rationalize and neutralize their infractions with social and moral contracts.
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	Dictionary.com/anomie
		Social instability caused by erosion of standards and values.
		Alienation and purposelessness experienced by a person or a class as a result of a lack of standards, values, or ideals: “We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie and rage” (Charles Krauthammer).
		n 1: personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation [syn: anomy] 2: lack of moral standards in a society [syn: anomy]
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