anthropology

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• Durkheim's Concept of Anomie: When Social Norms Break Down
  Anomie is Émile Durkheim's term for a society in which shared norms weaken, leaving people without clear limits on what they should want and how to pursue it.
• What Is the Hero's Journey? Campbell's Monomyth Explained
  The hero's journey, or monomyth, is Joseph Campbell's pattern of departure, trials and return that he found across world myths. Critics dispute its universality.
• Ethnography
  The qualitative research method of studying cultures through extended fieldwork and participant observation.
• Kinship
  The culturally recognized system of relationships based on descent and marriage, and a central topic of anthropology.