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The Economy and Social Pathology
Annual Review of Sociology, 1984This 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, 1970The 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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Distorted flesh – Towards a non-speculative concept of social pathology
Philosophy & Social CriticismThe 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, 2006AbstractThe 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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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 +2 more
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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 +2 more
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Depression — A Social Pathology of Action
Irish Journal of Sociology, 2009This 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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Social cost of pathological gambling
Journal of Gambling Studies, 1994Pathological gambling creates enormous problems for the afflicted individuals, their families, employers, and society, and has numerous disastrous financial consequences. The present study evaluates the financial burdens of pathological gambling by questioning pathological gamblers in treatment in Gamblers Anonymous (n=60; 56 males, 4 females; mean age
Caroline Sylvain +4 more
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Social Implications of Multiple Pathology
Gerontology, 1985The degree of multiple pathology in 184 consecutive patients admitted to a geriatric unit was recorded using the 13 commonest conditions present at the time of admission to provide a standard group of disorders for comparison. All of the conditions were chronic in nature, and 35% of the patients had a combination of four or more of these present ...
M.A. Harding +2 more
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