Durkheim observed that rapid social change can lead to a condition of norm “vacuum”: Old cultural rules no longer apply and new rules have not emerged to replace them. Durkheim’s term for this is ______.
A. egotism
B. anomie
C. anarchy
D. cultural lag
B. anomie
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