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pathology: a standalone construct

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pathology1 CONSTRUCTSocial pathologyMILLS · SOCIAL DISEASE

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Sociology and social theory

Society's ills framed as disease

The framing of certain social conditions or behaviours as diseases of society, by analogy with disease in a living body: early twentieth-century social-pathology theory treated crime, poverty, and disorder as sicknesses of the social organism to be diagnosed and cured. Mills's 1943 critique The Professional Ideology of Social Pathologists attacked that framing for smuggling small-town moral norms into what claimed to be objective science, and later Honneth's 2014 essay The Diseases of Society tried to rebuild the idea on firmer critical-theory ground. This referent is a contested way of judging a whole society as healthy or ill, not the medical study of disease in a body, and not the profession that treats communication disorders.[1][2]

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A social condition judged healthy or pathological against a standard for society
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Argued through social theory and normative criteria for a good society, not established by a laboratory test

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References

  1. Mills, C. W. (1943). The professional ideology of social pathologists. American Journal of Sociology, 49(2), 165–180. https://doi.org/10.1086/219350
  2. Honneth, A. (2014). The diseases of society: Approaching a nearly impossible concept. Social Research: An International Quarterly, 81(3), 683–703. https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2014.0042

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