Anomie: An Experimental and Exploratory Study of Durkheim\u27s Concept

Disturbed by the rapid growth of industrialization in late eighteenth-century France, Emile Durkheim, at the time that nation\u27s foremost sociologist, published a monograph pointing out the merits and dangers of division of labor to the stability of society. Published in 1893, De la division du travail social introduced the concept anomie to indicate a pathological form of society that could result from the division of labor. Four years later, Durkheim\u27s outstanding investigation of self-destruction in Le Suicide further developed anomie, linking a lack of social cohesion with deviance