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Durkheim used the word anomie to refer to a very specific condition. what is that condition?

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Anomie is a social condition where an individual or group shows a lack of the expected ethical and social behavior that is often displayed by instability, lack of purpose and even suicide. This is the term given by Emile Durkheim, a French sociologist, when he studied about suicide.

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