Community Formation/Community Destruction—Nomos and Anomie in a Core Societal Area

Abstract

Processes of anomie are affecting more and more societies. Anomie has become endemic, individual, and social. No society and no community appears to be immune to this process. We are at present witnessing the world‐wide degeneration of social bonds and social structures. We are witnessing a re‐barbarization of political conditions. Ex‐Yugoslavia is a nearby example. At the same time we are witnessing anomic conflagrations in Africa. Insidious anomic processes are also evident in the territories of the former Soviet Union. You may judge for yourself the extent to which the virus of anomie has also infected the social body in the core countries of the West.

Citation

Zihlmann, R. (1995), "Community Formation/Community Destruction—Nomos and Anomie in a Core Societal Area", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 15 No. 8/9/10, pp. 189-198. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013228