Anomic

By then, as a writer of a later generation, David Foster Wallace, remarked, the “brave new individualism and sexual freedom of the 1960s devolved into anomic self-indulgence” for the so-called Me generation of the 1970s. ❋ Carol Sklenicka (2009)

These have much in common; they are guides to effective living in our chaotic, anomic society. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But what if you could reduce the sense of isolation of millions of old people, provide an army of helpers in schools and hospitals and above all teach our anomic young people that they are part of something big and rather miraculous called British society? ❋ Burke's Corner (2009)

What does interest me is the question of feeling "atomised" and being adrift in "anomic campuses." ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2009)

It provides us with a common bond and mitigates against the anomic impulse in society. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As a convinced Bible-believing Christian I have no problem with recognising that everyone is inherently religious and that without some overarching world-view would slump into what sociologist, Peter Berger calls 'anomic collapse'. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But when mega developers began transforming Jersey City's post-industrial waterfront into a real estate "Gold Coast" in the '80s, area pols turned anomic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They are the isolates, the rejectees, and the anomic. ❋ Bernard M. Bass (2008)

Mr. Gray has identified a vein of what he expressively calls "anomic terrorism." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Suddenly, he was appealing not only to environmentalist Greens and anomic "disaffecteds" -- two groups that helped him score upsets in Maine and Colorado -- but to a broad swatch of America. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Asner mentioned a rather dubious study positing that "only" 10 percent of violent acts were media-inspired -- in truth, the cascade of amorality from Hollywood is one of several perverse braids twining into the anomic culture of poverty and criminality in the nation's cities. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The anomic feel powerless, normless, and aimless, and see leaders indifferent to their needs J. M. Burns, 1978. ❋ Bernard M. Bass (2008)

The anomic New Yorkers in Gaitskill's 1988 story collection, "Bad Behavior," led some readers to mistake her for an S&M Tama Janowitz. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Of course, this does not incommode me as much as losing sight or hearing would; but it is no very pleasant thing for all that, and I'm curious as to why it has so low a profile in the world as a whole as to be, effectively, nameless why should anosmia be anomic? ❋ Adam Roberts Project (2007)