SOCIAL THEORIES

Social Theories

Social Theories

Anomie Theory

Anomie, is a sociological period significance "personal feeling of a need of norms; normlessness". It was popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his influential publication Suicide (1897), which scrounged the phrase from French philosopher Jean-Marie Guyau (Dubin 1959).

For Durkheim, anomie arises more usually from a mismatch between individual or assembly measures and broader communal measures, or from the need of a communal ethic, which makes lesson deregulation and an nonattendance of legitimate aspirations.

Strain theory

In criminology, the damage idea states that communal organisations inside humanity may boost people to consign crime. Following on the work of Émile ...