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Durkheim used which term for a state in which society has lost the support of a firm collective conscience?

ATotal alienation
BFull rationality
CClass conflict
DSocial anomie
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Social anomie
1. The move from mechanical to organic solidarity can be a time of normlessness. 2. Collective norms weaken and people grow alienated from one another. 3. Durkheim named that condition anomie, which literally means without law. 4. Alienation is Marx's term for the worker cut off from labour and self, a different idea. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 3 "Culture", Ch 4 "Society and Social Interaction" and Ch 5 "Socialization", section 4.2 Theoretical Perspectives on Society_
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