Practice question · Estimate
Estimate how many years separate Durkheim’s Suicide and Merton’s paper Social Structure and Anomie.
Estimate on a scale from 10 years (10) to 90 years (90).
Hints
- Both dates appear in this lesson; subtract one from the other.
- One is at the very end of the nineteenth century and the other is from the late 1930s.
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41 (answers within ±5 count)
Why
About 41 years. Four decades separate the two uses of the word, which is part of why the shift in meaning went largely unremarked: by the time Merton wrote, the term had become common property, and a reader could take his usage for a development of Durkheim’s rather than a replacement of it.
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