Anomie, alienation,social disintegration

Anomie
The term is commonly indicates normlessness.

French sociologist Émile Durkheim  used this term in his influential book Suicide (1897).

Instability, break down of social standards and values or from a lack of purpose or ideals

anomie arises generally from a mismatch between personal or group standards and wider social standards
From the lack of a social ethic  which produces moral deregulation and an absence of legitimate aspirations.

Striving is considered useless because there is no accepted definition of what is desirable

Psychological states which may cause anomie
Sense of futility
Lak of purpose
Emotional emptiness and despair
Alienation:
A condition in social relation ship by a low degree of integration or common values and a high degree of distance or isolation between individuals and a group of people in a community or work environment.


Causes Of Alienation:

Polygamy:

Karl Marx:

Extensive use of technology
Bureaucratic Alienation

Social integration:

Principles by which individual or actors are related to one another in  a society.

System integration: relationship between parts of a society or social system.

It includes both order and conflict.


Social disintegration and Pakistani society:

1971 east Pakistan separated from west Pakistan on the basis of social and cultural disintegration.

Shia sunni fight (killing of hazaara community)

Causes
Poor governance
Corruption
bribery

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