What's the difference between anomy and atomy?

Anomy


Definition:

  • (n.) Disregard or violation of law.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was predicted that social anomie could be translated into behavioral (attempted suicide) and attitudinal (normlessness and powerlessness) determinants when viewed with regard to its impact upon the family.
  • (2) Politicians, he says, need to find a language to capture the "angst and anomie".
  • (3) The conjugal anomie proposition is at best supported for age groups between 15 and 44 when general anomie is not pronounced.
  • (4) Audience receptivity to suicide stories is assumed to be high in the Great Depression given widespread unemployment, a condition thought to promote suicidogenic mood such as anomie.
  • (5) General anomie may not be a viable explanation of suicide trends for groups actively supporting relevant social changes or not yet tradition-bound or for groups whose retirement status reduces the importance of some social changes.
  • (6) Possible reasons for this change include an increase in 'anomie' shown by a rise in the rates of crime, illegitimacy and admissions to hospital for alcoholism, a decline in social cohesion revealed by a fall in the marriage rate and a rise in the number of separated couples, and an increase in unemployment.
  • (7) There has been a sense of anomie in the CBC’s broadcasts during these playoffs, and on Wednesday it seemed to have finally morphed into full-blown nihilism.
  • (8) It is argued that these transformations are not fully in concordance with the original theories of anomie as they were set forth by Durkheim and Merton.
  • (9) Midteen feelings of anomie and rebellion correlated positively with midteen perception of parent-midteen disagreement about how the midteen should be reared: Anomia r (172) = .25, p less than .01; Rebellion r (172) = .37, p less than .01.
  • (10) This study examines the high suicide rate among the widowed in a census tract population in Flint, Michigan, and identifies the social psychological factors of anomie, actual social isolation, and future social isolation as etiologic factors in widow suicide.
  • (11) Cross-sectional and 36-month prospective analyses of the relationships among anomie and both alcohol abuse and alcohol consumption patterns provided little support that anomie was directly associated with ethanol ingestion patterns in a sample of 302 male air traffic controllers.
  • (12) The author of this paper demonstrates that the sociological concept of anomie has undergone important transformations when applied in psychiatric research.
  • (13) It was also associated with those measures as well as anomie, hopelessness and scores on the General Health Questionnaire 4 years previously.
  • (14) These differences appear to be part of a family anomie syndrome.
  • (15) But it does describe the conditions of alienation, anomie and ambivalence in which a gun might be used and some gun deaths ignored.
  • (16) Data were collected using the Parental Stressor Scale: Pediatric ICU which assesses seven dimensions of the environment: Child's Behavior and Emotions, Child's Appearance, Sights and Sounds, Procedures, Staff Communication, Anomie, and Parental Role Alteration.
  • (17) In addition a checklist concerned with degree of social and political activity, a modified (shortened) version of Crumbaugh's Purpose in Life Test, Srole's Test of Anomie (complete), and the shortened form of the E.P.I.
  • (18) In the second study, a revised version of the Family CAGE was compared with other scales such as the standard CAGE questionnaire; an "Anomy" Scale; the Catchment Epidemiologic Study-Depression Scale; a global self-assessment of alcohol-related problems; and a self-report of lifetime history of major depression and recent self-limited depression.
  • (19) Expressions of anomie increased significantly for persons in the age groups (15--24 and 25--34 year) that displayed increases in suicide rates, annual variations in endorsement of anomie statements were correlated significantly with the concomitant annual variations in the suicide rates of the 15--24 year age group, and there was a nonsignificant tendency toward this relationship in the other (25--34 year) age group with increasing suicide rates.
  • (20) Durkheim's influential book, Suicide, provides general (economic) anomie, conjugal anomie, and sex-role convergence explanations of changes in suicide rates under conditions of social change.

Atomy


Definition:

  • (n.) An atom; a mite; a pigmy.
  • (n.) A skeleton.

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