A society that loses its basic family and religious core values, experiences large-scale immigration of people with very different values, and fails to provide meaning for the life of its people is in danger of an increase in what Durkheim calls:

A) egoistic suicide.
B) altruistic suicide.
C) anomic suicide.
D) intragroup suicide.

Ans: C) anomic suicide.

Psychology

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