Anomie is best described as a situation in which a large number of people lack interaction with social institutions.

• A. Aggregate
• B. Attitude
• C. Anomie
• D. Community organization

Answer: (C)

Anomie is a state of normlessness in society, where shared rules and expectations become unclear or weakened, often after rapid change or disruption. When institutions fail to regulate behavior or people aren’t integrated into them, norms lose their grip, and individuals feel uncertain about how to act or what counts as acceptable.

Describing anomie as a situation where many people lack interaction with social institutions captures that loss of guiding norms and social regulation. If the usual structures aren’t guiding behavior, the sense of shared order erodes, which is the core idea behind anomie.

The other terms refer to different concepts: an aggregate is just a mass of individuals without forming a cohesive unit, attitude is a personal evaluative stance, and community organization is a structured process for coordinating groups. None of these convey the broad breakdown of norms and regulation that the term denotes, so the described situation is the best fit.