The recent National Book Award winner for Short Fiction in English enjoys collaboration with 17 outstanding graphic artists for this unique collection of komiks stories that may only be acknowledged as comic if one had an equally strange appreciation of anomie , existentialism and nihilism in non-nerdy narratives.

Two decades ago, I wrote a piece suggesting that Pakistan might be suffering from what Emile Durkheim called anomie . Anomie is a situation where society provides little guidance to the individual.

He covers China in transition: Jia Zhangke's Hometown Trilogy, postmodern anomie or postsocialist alienation, problematic narration of the historical experience of the working class, portraying the abject and the sublime of the subaltern, exhibiting the confusion and melancholy of artist, women's changing destiny in the post-revolutionary fantasyland, in the name of love: ideology of the elite class, and whither China: Wang Chao's China Trilogy.

He also blamed the downturn on a four-month investment anomie period occasioned by the absence of a Governing Board.

Even if individuals prospered, they tended to feel alienated from the larger society and pessimistic about it, suffering from what mile Durkheim called anomie .

The West "collectively plunged" the war-ravaged nation into what he called an " anomie " without being able to manage the situation afterwards.

While enabling new modes of identity construction and self-broadcast, it is also accessory to the rise of demagogues and the impoverishment of discourse, yielding social anomie and networks of fascism.

One such sociological phenomenon that has been discussed in the literature was developed by Durkheim (1897) and by Srole (1956) and Merton (1938, 1995) in the psychological literature known as anomie and anomia.

Over the last century, three related emotions, in particular, have fuelled backlashes against globalisation: fear, suspicion, and anomie .

"The Sociology of Deviance" is an exemplary work of impressively accessible scholarship organized and presented in three major section: Background (The Nature of Deviance; Studying Deviance); Theories (An Overview of and Introduction to Sociological Theories of Deviance; Anomie and Structural Theories Extended--Strain Theories; Control Theories; Societal Reaction and Other Social Processes Theories; Conflict and Feminist Theories); Substantive Areas (Suicide; Criminal Behaviors; Addictions and the Use and Abuse of Substances; Sexual Behaviors and Differences; Elite and Power Deviance).