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Definition of Anomic
1. Adjective. Socially disoriented. "We live in an age of rootless alienated people"
Definition of Anomic
1. Adjective. Socially disorganized, disoriented or alienated ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anomic
1. anomie [adj] - See also: anomie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anomic
Literary usage of Anomic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Heredity and Selection in Sociology by Georges Chatterton-Hill (1907)
"It is, on the other hand, the rate of egoistic and anomic suicide which is so
... Egoistic and anomic suicide are both of them the typical fruits of that ..."
2. The Urban Condition: space, community, and self in the contemporary metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"... anomic attitudes flourish. Building on Wirth's thesis, for example, Claude
Fischer notes a relationship between anomie or alienation and the urban way ..."
3. Cultural Competence for Evaluators: A Guide for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse edited by Mario A. Orlandi (1998)
"However, there has been no empirical study of AOD-using behavior that has compared
monocultural, bicultural, and anomic Asian Americans. ..."
4. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"... cannot in themselves be anomic — that no manifestation in external nature can
be really irrational and purposeless — although human understanding and ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"When we inquire into the grounds for assuming this anomic, this outlawed condition
of man, we generally meet with the argument that man creates his own ..."
6. The American Political Science Review (1922)
"Nomic and anomic relations. Albert Kocourek. Cornell Law Quar. Dec., 1921.
Legal Training. The function of a state university law school. Henry Craig Jones. ..."
7. Popular Science Monthly (1901)
"The anomic youngster may never stand at the head of his class, but he is very
likely to delight his fond mamma with a mark of 100 in deportment . ..."
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