Understanding Problems of Social Pathology
Understanding Problems of Social Pathology

Author: Przemysław Piotrowski

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 9042020253

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A social reality (including social pathology) is constantly being constructed anew in the process of confrontation of perspectives and definitions of individuals, institutions and social groups. Therefore what interests the authors of the book more than the disputes on the right definition, is the understanding of social pathology phenomena - their causes, mechanisms, and social costs. Complex and multidimensional as it is, social reality is best described from various perspectives. For that reason, a potentially interesting and fruitful interdisciplinary approach characterises the book. It contains mainly texts of psychologists who work at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. The articles of sociologists, lawyers, and one theoretician of education broaden the horizon and thus contribute new insights to the entirety of the book. The body of articles predominantly relates to Polish reality, as well as stems from the experience of the Polish society in the period of political transformation. No less interesting are the articles on the pathology of political discourse, community-policing problems in France, and issues of social concern (victims of violence, problems of the elderly, and collective behaviour). The volume is of interest for social scientists and professionals as well as for students.

The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization
The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization

Author: Kieran Keohane

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-03

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1317015630

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The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization explores the nature of contemporary malaises, diseases, illnesses and psychosomatic syndromes, examining the manner in which they are related to cultural pathologies of the social body. Multi-disciplinary in approach, the book is concerned with questions of how these conditions are not only manifest at the level of individual patients' bodies, but also how the social 'bodies politic' are related to the hegemony of reductive biomedical and individual-psychologistic perspectives. Rejecting a reductive, biomedical and individualistic diagnosis of contemporary problems of health and well-being, The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization contends that many such problems are to be understood in the light of radical changes in social structures and institutions, extending to deep crises in our civilization as a whole. Rather than considering such conditions in isolation - both from one another and from broader contexts - this book argues that health and well-being are not just located at the level of the individual body, the integral human person, or even collective social bodies; rather, they encompass the health of humanity as a whole and our relationship with Nature. A ground-breaking analysis of social malaise and the health of civilization, this book will be of interest to scholars of sociology, social theory, social psychology, philosophy and anthropology.

Society and Social Pathology
Society and Social Pathology

Author: R.C. Smith

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-02-21

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 3319503251

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This book offers one of the most comprehensive studies of social pathology to date, following a cross-disciplinary and methodologically innovative approach. It is written for anyone concerned with understanding current social conditions, individual health, and how we might begin to collectively conceive of a more reconciled postcapitalist world. Drawing reference from the most up-to-date studies, Smith crosses disciplinary boundaries from cognitive science and anthropology to critical theory, systems theory and psychology. Opening with an empirical account of numerous interlinked carises from mental health to the physiological effects of environmental pollution, Smith argues that mainstream sociological theories of pathology are deeply inadequate. Smith introduces an alternative critical conception of pathology that drills to the core of how and why society is deeply ailing. The book concludes with a detailed account of why a progressive and critical vision of social change requires a “holistic view” of individual and societal transformation. Such a view is grounded in the awareness that a sustainable transition to postcapitalism is ultimately a many-sided (social, individual, and structural) healing process.

Mass Society in Crisis
Mass Society in Crisis

Author: Bernard Rosenberg

Publisher:

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13:

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Textbook in sociology and social pathology presenting fundamental contemporary social problems - comprises papers and excerpts from published material on such issues as police violence, the social system in the concentration camp, the horror of nuclear war, crime and poverty, mental health, social structure and anomie, social psychology, youth unrest among university students, employment discrimination, Black life and the social process, sociological factors in addiction to drugs, etc. References and statistical tables.

Social Pathology
Social Pathology

Author: Edwin McCarthy Lemert

Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC

Published: 2012-04-01

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9781258283711

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Pedagogies and Early Intervention Strategies for Combatting Socio-pathological Behaviors
Pedagogies and Early Intervention Strategies for Combatting Socio-pathological Behaviors

Author: Sheryl Buckley

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781799885108

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"This book is intended to serve as a guide to the social pedagogy discipline for those involved in many levels who are dealing with different types of socio-pathological phenomena and problems in the theory and practice, and offering an in-depth theoretical framework and a primary emphasis on practice with applications to interdisciplinary educational environments"--