@article{ref1,
title="Turning anomie on its head: fatalism as Durkheim's concealed and multidimensional alienation theory",
journal="Sociological theory",
year="2005",
author="Acevedo, Gabriel A.",
volume="23",
number="1",
pages="75-85",
abstract="Durkheim's underdeveloped notion of fatalism is the keystone for a bridge between two conceptual categories central to Marxian and Durkheimian theory: alienation and anomie. Durkheim does not necessarily disagree with Marx that excessive regulation can be socially damaging but chooses to highlight the effects of underregulation. A Durkheimian critique of overregulation becomes possible if we turn away from anomie and toward Durkheim's idea of fatalism--a concept that I will argue here is unexpectedly consistent with Marx's notion of alienation. We can infer that Durkheim presents us with a notion of an &quot;optimal&quot; human condition that exists between anomie and fatalism. The structure of modern societies, it will be argued, is characterized not just by excessive control leading to alienation or by a lack of integrative restraint leading to anomie but also by active efforts to optimally regulate social life.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0735-2751",
doi="10.1111/j.0735-2751.2005.00243.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0735-2751.2005.00243.x"
}