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Now today I will talk about anomie.
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And anomie is one of the abnormal consequences
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of the division of labor.
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And well this is one of
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the troubling aspects of Durkheim's work--
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the whole idea of abnormality or social pathologies.
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And he has been criticized about this a great deal.
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How do we know what is abnormal,
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and how on earth
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can we tell what is the normal state of society?
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Pathology does assume, right, that social researchers
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have some way how to judge