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The Economy and Social Pathology

Annual Review of Sociology, 1984
This review assesses the research of the past decade on how economic deprivation, prosperity, and change influence social pathology. Absolute economic deprivation is associated with high levels of psychological distress, some forms of psychoses, and interpersonal violence, although not with relatively minor forms of crime and neurosis.
A. Horwitz
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Durkheim and Contemporary Social Pathology

The British Journal of Sociology, 1970
The relation between Durkheim's (I951) concepts of anomie and egoism has been virtually unexplored in the substantial body of literature on social pathology. While the obscurity of Durkheim's distinction has frequently been commented upon, it is implicitly assumed to be irrelevant for contemporary theorization in social pathology.
A. Mawson
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SOCIAL PATHOLOGY

The Lancet, 1947
J D, KERSHAW, R C, BROWNE
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Distorted flesh – Towards a non-speculative concept of social pathology

Philosophy & Social Criticism
The article aims at elaborating a non-speculative concept of social pathology. In the first section, various conceptualizations (e.g. Habermas, Honneth) are critically revaluated.
Domonkos Sik
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Biopolitics and Social Pathologies

Critical Horizons, 2006
AbstractThe question of social medicine provides the opportunity to engage in a critical reading of Foucault's theory of biopower. The analyses dedicated by Foucault to ‘the birth of social medicine’ represent one of the few examples of a thorough application of that theory. They allow Foucault to show the heuristic value of the biopolitical hypothesis
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Social Pathologies

2022
Social pathologies have been recognised to be very complex problems as they affect the individual's psychology as well as his/her body. As a result, they have been approached from a normativist way as well as a naturist way by considering society as an organic or normative entity.
Apostolos Giannakopoulos, Sheryl Beverley Buckley, Marianne Loock   +2 more
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An ecological analysis of the interrelationships among drug abuse and other indices of social pathology.

International Journal of the Addictions, 1984
In a study of the interrelationships among 12 separate indices of social pathology, including drug abuse, in which census tracts were the units of analysis, moderate to high intercorrelations among all indices were observed. A subsequent components-types
D. Nurco, J. Shaffer, I. Cisin
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Depression — A Social Pathology of Action

Irish Journal of Sociology, 2009
This article argues that the epidemic of depression is to be understood alongside the normative conditions of self-realisation associated with the emergence of the new spirit of capitalism. In the new spirit of capitalism, active realisation of the authentic self is an institutionalised demand, which is expected to be converted into praxis.
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Industrial unrest as social pathology: The Australian writings of Elton Mayo

, 1982
(1982). Industrial unrest as social pathology: The Australian writings of Elton Mayo. Historical Studies: Vol. 20, No. 79, pp. 217-233.
Helen Bourke
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Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England

, 1998
List of illustrations Acknowledgements Note on the text 1. Introduction: functionalist organicism and the origins of social pathology Part I. Pathologizing the Body Politic: 2.
J. Harris
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