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This 5 page paper explores sociologist Emile Durkheim's concept of anomie, and argues that the freedom that man experiences under these conditions does cause suffering, and that such freedom is indeed a social and human problem. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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his other ideas, the concept of anomie, and asks if we can say that suffering can be defined as a lack of social regulation; and if freedom is a lack
of regulation, does that imply that freedom is a social problem? Discussion Durkheim "introduced the concept of anomie in his book, The Division of Labour in Society, published in
1893" (Durkheims anomie). In the book, he defined anomie as "a condition of deregulation that was occurring in society"; that is, societal rules were breaking down and people no longer
knew what to expect from one another (Durkheims anomie). In other words, anomie is a state that exists when "norms (expectations on behaviours) are confused, unclear or not present" (Durkheims
anomie). It was this state, in which norms are absent, that Durkheim felt led to deviant behavior, up to and including suicide (Durkheims anomie). In his book, Durkheim wrote
that societies evolved in the same was as organisms, moving from the simple toward the complex; what he described as evolving from a "non-specialised form, called mechanical, toward a highly
complex, specialsed form, called organic" (Durkheims anomie). In the mechanical society, people tend to behave alike and think alike, and "more or less perform the same work tasks and have
the same group-oriented goals" (Durkheims anomie). However, when societies become more complex, work also becomes more complex; people "are no longer tied to one another and social bonds are impersonal"
(Durkheims anomie). When social bonds break down, the result is disruption: "Individuals cannot find their place in society without clear rules to help guide them" (Durkheims anomie). When those
rules disappear or change unexpectedly, Durkheim argues, society is thrown into chaos and "dissatisfaction, conflict and deviance" result (Durkheims anomie). Durkheim also observed that "social periods of disruption (economic depression,
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