Revisiting the measurement of anomie

• Main Authors: Teymoori, Ali, Jetten, Jolanda, Bastian, Brock, Ariyanto, Amarina, Autin, Frédérique, Ayub, Nadia, Badea, Constantina, Besta, Tomasz, Butera, Fabrizio, Costa-Lopes, Rui, Cui, Lijuan, Fantini, Carole, Finchilescu, Gillian, Gaertner, Lowell, Gollwitzer, Mario, Gómez, Ángel, González, Roberto, Hong, Ying Yi, Jensen, Dorthe Høj, Karasawa, Minoru, Kessler, Thomas, Klein, Olivier, Lima, Marcus, Mähönen, Tuuli Anna, Megevand, Laura, Morton, Thomas, Paladino, Paola, Polya, Tibor, Ruza, Aleksejs, Shahrazad, Wan, Sharma, Sushama, Torres, Ana Raquel, van der Bles, Anne Marthe, Wohl, Michael
• Other Authors: Eriksson, Kimmo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Anomie; DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology; Socioeconomics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88332; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46908
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Sociologists coined the term “anomie” to describe societies that are characterized by disintegration and deregulation. Extending beyond conceptualizations of anomie that conflate the measurements of anomie as ‘a state of society’ and as a ‘state of mind’, we disentangle these conceptualizations and...