Clara, a student of sociology, is studying the effects of industrialization in the nineteenth century. She notices that a lot of people from rural areas settled down in cities to take up industrial jobs in that era. This, however, led to a breakdown of societal rules and people became unsure of how to behave because of absent, conflicting, or confusing social norms. In this scenario, Clara is most likely studying the concept of _

The correct answer is anomie

The concept of anomie was coined by the French sociologist Emile Durkheim and it means: absence or disintegration of social norms. The concept emerged with the aim of describing the social pathologies of modern Western society, rationalist and individualistic. The accelerated urbanization process, the lack of solidarity, the new forms of organization of social relations and the influence of the economy on the lives of individuals after the Industrial Revolution are the object of Durkheim's study.