social pathology

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noun

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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How to use social pathology in a sentence

To the alienist and the criminal anthropologist it is a social pathology.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, October 1899|Various
Nearly every question of social pathology may be resolved to this, Why does he not work?
Races and Immigrants in America|John R. Commons
In all cases of social pathology this method is so valuable as to be almost indispensable.
The Transformation of Early Christianity from an Eschatological to a Socialized Movement|Lyford Paterson Edwards
It bears directly upon the question of the relation of malnutrition to social pathology.
Not Guilty|Robert Blatchford

The former, in his clever book on this subject, has confused individual with social pathology.
Anarchism|E. V. Zenker