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Example sentences for: anomie
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In the post-World War II years, urban strife and suburban anomie gave rise to school violence of the sorts broadly rendered by Hollywood in the 1955 films Rebel Without a Cause and Blackboard Jungle . The nation waxed hysterical over "juvenile delinquency," as the vogue phrase had it--alienated adolescents unaccountably sullen in the bountiful Eisenhower years.
It's about the little moments of anomie in the daily routine, underscored by cheerful violence and Tarantino-esque riffing.
Valelly thinks that e-voting would create "political anomie."
She conflates belligerence, divisiveness, polarization, titillation, jealousy, incivility, aloofness, ruthlessness, cruelty, savagery, contempt, glibness, cynicism, anomie, partisanship, obstructionism, and gridlock.
The accounts in both papers steer pretty clear of sociological explanations--the only reason for the anomie that's discussed seems to be $4 bottles of water and $6 pretzels.