The French scholar Émile Durkheim is considered a classical figure in sociology,

The French scholar Émile Durkheim is considered a classical figure in sociology, according to the scientific community. Throughout his professional (intellectual) career, he systematized a variety of concepts that we are still using to study and better understand societal problems. The concept of ‘anomie’ is one of them. According to Durkheim, the notion of ‘anomie’ alludes to a certain state of depression, mental sickness, disease, or other malaises provoked (or accelerated) by modernization, urbanization, and social individuation (individualism & selfishness). Although he first used the term in 1893, many critical thinkers do think that it (anomie) can be used to diagnose the current crisis that hampers conviviality in American (U.S.) society. According to Chris Hedges, the opioid epidemic morbid obesity, gambling, suicide, sexual sadism, hate groups, and mass shootings are expressions of the current anomic state of the U.S. society. According to your standpoint, what are the factors associated with anomie, and what can be done to fight (or at least) to diminish it?
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4. A section of conclusions and possible recommendations, and
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