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On the Social Costs of Modernization. Social Disintegration, Atomie/Anomie and SocialDevelopment

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  • Johan Galtung

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This essay presents a provocative and pessimistic picture of the human condition at the end of the twentieth century. Many societies are seen to be caught up in a process of destructuration and deculturation, heading for structurelessness and culturelessness — here defined as ‘atomie’ and ‘anomie’. This is accompanied by a collapse and corruption of institutions, an isolation of individuals and the growing predominance of purely egotistical motivation for action. In the cultural sphere, modernization seems either to have entirely undermined religious belief or encouraged an intolerant fundamentalist backlash. One way to reverse this apparent slide toward anomie might be to draw upon the connecting, unifying force of all tolerant and compassionate religions.

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  • Johan Galtung, 1996. "On the Social Costs of Modernization. Social Disintegration, Atomie/Anomie and SocialDevelopment," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 27(2), pages 379-413, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devchg:v:27:y:1996:i:2:p:379-413
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.1996.tb00596.x
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