One of its popularizers asserted that communities are psychic beings, with distinctive ways of thinking and feeling.
One of its popularizers asserted that communities are psychic beings, with distinctive ways of thinking and feeling. An individual's sadness, he wrote, comes not from "this or that incident in his life, but from the group to which he belongs." The collapse of normative regulation of societal relationships through rules and shared values, leads to this phenomenon, where personal feelings of despair, isolation and  meaninglessness grow and potentially erupt as individual pathologies and civic disorders. FTP, name this concept expounded on by Robert Merton and Emile Durkheim.
One of its popularizers asserted that communities are psychic beings, with distinctive ways of thinking and feeling.
anomie