The lack of traditional social patterns within a group; a lack of norms leading to conflict and confusion. In a study of second-generation British-Barbadians moving to Barbados, Potter and Phillips (2006) AAAG 96, 3 note that they are often thought by the locals to be mad. L. Wirth (1938) sees anomie as the result of urbanism; Entriken (2002) Geografiska B 84, 1 thinks anomie and multiculturalism are ‘two related, yet often competing, visions of modern society’ (but gives no more supporting evidence than Wirth).