Iván Szelényi continues Yale's Foundations of Modern Social Theory course with a lecture on Émile Durkheim's concept of anomie. He opens by reviewing The Division of Labor in Society and the shift from mechanical to organic solidarity driven by industrialization and urbanization. Szelényi explains anomie as the pathological byproduct of that shift, distinguishing a lack of moral regulation from Durkheim's less familiar argument that overregulation, through a forced division of labor, produces fatalism. He compares anomie to Marx's alienation and to Weber's disenchantment, noting that Durkheim never uses the words alienation or exploitation and treats anomie as an irregular deviation rather than something built into capitalism itself. The lecture closes by contrasting Durkheim's Hobbesian view of human nature and cautious optimism about capitalism with Marx's revolutionary pessimism. Chapter markers divide the recording into four segments covering roughly forty-seven minutes.