Informal shapes of social anomie

ON THE SOCIAL COSTS OF MODERNIZATION: Social Disintregation, Atomie/Anomie and Social Development

he modernization project launched by the West two centuries ago, was based on three pillars: State-logic, Capital-logic and Ratio-logic; formulated in part by Montesquieu (France), Smith (Britain) and Kant (Germany). The logic of the State implied centralization of coercive power, tempered by democracy. The logic of Capital implied market forces for economic power, tempered by anti-monopoly cla...

Social Change and Anomie: A Cross-National Study

Relationship between Professional Ethics & Social Anomie (Procrastination) among the Employees

Background: Procrastination is a common phenomenon among people as well as in the workplace and among employees in organizations who spend time with delays in completing some tasks and some have made this time their way of life. Method: This research is applied in terms of purpose and the research design is descriptive correlation. The statistical population is the staff of the Rural Cooperati...

Revisiting the Measurement of Anomie

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 develop an analysis and measure of this phenomenon focusing on anomie as a perception of the 'sta...

Informal insurance in social networks

This paper studies bilateral insurance schemes across networks of individuals. While transfers are based on social norms, each individual must have the incentive to abide by those norms, and so we investigate the structure of self-enforcing insurance networks. Network links play two distinct and possibly conflictual roles. First, they act as conduits for transfers. Second, they act as conduits ...