But in sociology, we use the term anomie, the sense of normlessness that comes just like the spiraling down.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2008] Reference

Disobedience is a moral and civic response to governmental "anomie".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Wikipedia defines 'anomie' as "a sociological term which may most simply be described as a personal condition resulting from a lack of norms.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Chaos Manor Musings] Reference

What the minister, in his ignorance and desperation, called "anomie", political and legal theory examines under the term "civil disobedience".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

If "anomie" exists in Greece today, it is found in the separation between law and democracy and the destruction of any sense of the common good.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

April feels the anomie of life lacking personal accomplishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brad Balfour: Down That Revolutionary Road Towards Many Award Accolades] Reference

It may be a convincing portrayal of anomie, but anomie is boring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Broderick, Boringly] Reference

The anomie, deracination, and alienation they will have to endure is sad.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Beijing, a Fast Friendship] Reference

Nor that long ago that "Play It As It Lays" made anomie a household word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Didion Is Still Great] Reference

Many Americans living outside the USA are in a constant state of anomie and loss.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOMESCHOOLING: VERBOTEN IN GERMANY STILL IN 2009] Reference

But China, for all its oppression, has no monopoly on this kind of social anomie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Sense Of A Suicide] Reference

The relentless anomie pervading his paintings marks them as peculiar to the 20th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whitney Confronts Reality In Excellent Hopper Exhibition] Reference

(The video for "Free Falling" may forever be the signature image of dazed Valley anomie.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Petty and Tom Frank: Two Geniuses of Pop Culture] Reference

They know nothing but leisure so they use that leisure to blame their anomie on their parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Traitor to Memory]

There is, as one might expect, the usual technology-based anomie or distancing from actual life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dangerous and Strange] Reference

"Less Than Zero" was a kind of anti-sermon: unrelenting in its eagerness to put anomie on display.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zero Progress] Reference

I cannot set out to convert you to my brand of anomie, it would be a contradiction of it to do so.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

However tormented he may be by racial slights and anomie, Mobutu can hardly be described as a "nihilist.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Shaky Mobutu] Reference

Most of them were textbook cases of anomie, kids in their late teens who felt trapped in an imperfect world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minnesota Menage] Reference

The extra-curricular summer book is the third way of accommodating the cultural anomie of American teenagers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter W. Wood: Enrique Goes to College] Reference

In both novels young people are caught in a backwash of postwar blues and anomie, and everybody drinks too much.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road to West Egg] Reference

Kristof's Daily Me is ultimately a descent into anomie, where professional and ethical standards fall by the wayside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Fishman: My Mother, the Future of Journalism] Reference

He profoundly understood young adult problems and anxieties around achievement, authority, rebelliousness and anomie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco : The Fox] Reference

But since I do not have much intellectual respect for generational politics, I can live with this chronological anomie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rep. Barney Frank: Refight the Nineties?] Reference

She was there for your first crushes and heartbreaks, your party dresses and spins at sophisticated states like anomie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

Those same communications tools would also help the jobless avoid some of the anomie that often comes with unemployment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Kearns: Bundle Internet Access with Unemployment Support: Netcentric Recovery Plan] Reference

But on reflection, Percy concluded that it was worth the danger given the anomie-fighting qualities of Kentucky whiskey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Drinking Well] Reference

Were his explorations of the Tau-tau universe giving rise to a form of anomie from which he could not extricate himself?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kaisho]

In such a state of anomie, of acute anti-everything, he was no good to anyone, especially his friends, most especially himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hole In Space]

The movie suggests that it's deeper than that, a case of contemporary anomie that can't be cured by filters or New Age retreats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wide-Eyed Glee,] Reference

He is someplace semirural, seems idle, exudes some kind of nameless anomie; the scene appears to be drifting away from the book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Hell and History] Reference

But at the same time she felt a distinct lessening of the anomie which at times buffeted her spirit with the viciousness of a riptide.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miko]

Local community vigilance (think Scarlet Letter and Middletown) broke down before suburban anomie, youth culture and college 'free-zones.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Block: The Specter of the Counterculture II: The Cunning of Desire] Reference

In the dialectic between communism and capitalism, Lenin is said to have called creatures who exhibit this sort of anomie "useful idiots".    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Tango in Davos ... Globalism and Social Media Hook Up] Reference

An all-star production of this bitingly vivid snapshot of '80s anomie might be just the thing to jump-start Mr. Lonergan's inexplicably quiescent career.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memo to Broadway: Go Small] Reference