Loss of cultural rootedness when old values cannot confront rapid social change.
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anomie
Loss of cultural rootedness when old values cannot confront rapid social change.
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The confusion produced when people move from village norms to city rules and no longer know what action means.
A city condition where older rules no longer apply and people do not know what to do.
Jiang defines anomie as the loss of cultural rootedness when inherited values cannot adapt to rapid change.
Jiang identifies anomie, alienation, and disenchantment as psychological problems produced by the city: rule confusion, regulated lack of freedom, and machine-like loss of agency.
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"And it creates psychological issues. Okay? Primarily the idea of enemy. Enemy just means a loss of sense of cultural rootedness. Right? As things..."
"You wanna know where this food is made. The problem, though, of course, is this is all an abstraction. You have absolutely no idea..."
"And then afterwards, you become friends. In the city, if someone punches you, and you punch back, you both go to jail. So it's..."
"So you go from the village to the city, now to the internet. Of course, this creates a lot of problems for people because..."
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