social pathology

a social factor, as poverty, old age, or crime, that tends to increase social disorganization and inhibit personal adjustment.
the study of such factors and the social problems they produce.

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To the alienist and the criminal anthropologist it is a social pathology.

Nearly every question of social pathology may be resolved to this, Why does he not work?

In all cases of social pathology this method is so valuable as to be almost indispensable.

It bears directly upon the question of the relation of malnutrition to social pathology.

The former, in his clever book on this subject, has confused individual with social pathology.

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