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Society and Pornography

II. Anomie Anomie is a concept that refers to the result of a breakdown of social norms. Thus, individuals have a sense of aiml...

Questions on Concepts in Sociology

way, anomie is experienced. To Merton, along with the precepts of his social strain theory, one can say that the way in which the ...

New Zealand's Working Women

is the only one who bears children and can feed them from her own body. She can be raped. She can do or endure all of these things...

Common Questions About Classical Sociology

the end, Marx does care about how the people feel and how they fare in daily life. Unlike Weber, Marx views alienation as a proble...

Society, the Individual, and Sociology

themselves. It is in adjusting to change that people lose their ground. Meaning and purpose in life is lost. Thus, clinical depres...

Anomie Suicide According to Emile Durkheim

is "chronic economic anomie," which refers to the long term decline of social regulation (Dunman). Durkheim identified this type a...

Sociological Theories and Serial Killers

In five pages this paper considers the anomie concept in this discussion of serial killings and how they may be explained through ...

Violence and Postal Workers

In eight pages this paper discusses postal workers and their aberrant behavior incidences in a consideration of theories including...

Gangs Explained Through Deviance Sociological Theory

This paper examines in five pages how gangs are explained through an application of the deviance sociological theory that includes...

Concept of Deviance

In ten pages the concept of deviance is examined from various theoretical vantage points and includes labeling and anomie theory a...

Alienation and Anomie

In five pages contemporary relevance is considered in a comparative analysis of the alienation concept of Karl Marx and the anomie...

'Suicide' by Emile Durkheim

and in society as a whole. The way in which these regulators therefore effect the moral feeling of society, if there is to much or...

Anomie Sociological Concept

In five pages Emile Durkheim's concept of anomie is examined through several examples, organic and mechanical solidarity is explai...

Explanation of Social Theories

In ten pages this paper explains such social theories as alienation, social stratification, social strain, differential associatio...

Social Problems and the Theories of Emile Durkheim

In ten pages the theories of Emile Durkheim inclusive of anomie are applied to such social problems as poverty, homelessness, and ...

Gang Violence and the Anomie Theory of Robert K. Merton

In fifteen pages this paper applies the anomie theory of Robert K. Merton to the issue of gang violence with 5 crucial adaptations...

Old Criminology Theory of Thought

In his book The Division of Labor in Society, Durkheim proposed two concepts. First, that societies evolved from a simple, nonspec...

Juvenile Delinquency Causes and Theories

adulthood. This includes any insults or trauma, the individuals behavioral response, problems in school, problems in society, etc...

The Anomie Theory of Criminology

misguided ideas about what the discipline is all about. Many consider the science of criminology to be an outdated pseudo-science,...

Marx and Durkheim's Theories of Labor Compared

This 10 page paper talks about labor but also compares and contrasts Marx's alienation with Durkheim's anomie. Bibliography lists ...

A Sociological Analysis of the Criminal Case of Rapper T.I.

Dantzer, 2005). The idea here is that with fewer solid ties to the community, and the lure of easy money, people get lost. They en...

Karl Marx and Emilie Durkheim on Division of Labor Concepts

unskilled. Many of the skills they acquired were specific. From there, new trades were born. The workers in society were transform...

Theories in Criminology

the author notes that labelists do not generally support such simplistic notions (Goode, 1994). In other words, one label does not...

A Sociological Analysis of Hannibal Lecter

in a particular human being, but it recognizes that a set of behaviors, socioeconomic status, biology and so forth create predicto...

Durkheim and the Concept of Anomie

the same group-oriented goals" (Durkheims anomie). However, when societies become more complex, work also becomes more complex; pe...

Anomie Theory of Delinquency and Juvenile Delinquency

cultures norms in achieving those goals (Robert Merton: Anomie Theory, 2008). One could perhaps state that, as an example, the soc...

Public Administration: Discretionist vs Instrumentalist

fact, contended that: "even under the best arrangements a considerable margin of irresponsible conduct of...

The Westies/Organized Crime Theory

where Irish American presence was predominant well into the 1980s. The organized crime studies that discuss connections between n...

Religious Plurality Views

through Me" (Vlach, 2007). However, Judaism and Islam are also exclusive religions (Vlach, 2007). They may admit or acknowledge th...

Columbus, Hero or Villain?

doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...