An Evaluation on Social Change Anomie and Social Violence

Abstract

In order to improve their economies, benefit from the global market and have a voice in the international arena, developing countries adopt the policies of powerful Western countries and apply them internally and externally. These policies can be a mix of liberal, neoliberal, and free-market economics. These political practices of the countries have caused social changes and at some points in the society, social violence due to anomie has become widespread. This study aims to evaluate the anomie caused by social change in Turkey through violence. In the study, it is expressed by using historical grounding that social violence caused by anomies caused by social change without a full social consensus with social groups and professional associations has become widespread among certain segments and that the interaction of these segments with each other in a conflictual context rather than in a consensus has become widespread. In the study, it was concluded that there is cultural resistance as a result of social change, resulting in anomie and this leads to social conflict. In addition, the course of social change can create dualities and anomie in daily life.  This anomie can lead to the conflict of community, gender and professional groups such as doctor-patient, woman-man, human-animal, "teacher"-student. Compromises to be made to ensure that social change practices to eliminate dualities are equally accepted by all segments of society can create a ground for social peace that can eliminate social violence.