Search

The author addresses the notion of 'social pathology' that proliferates within the Frankfurt School with the aim of reconstruction of its underlying sociological analysis model and advance some notes for its operationalization. For this purpose, the paper goes through the history of the notion of 'social pathology' and points out some of its limitations (1-2); then formally reconstructs its underlying analysis model, namely, the one that aims to identify blockages of individual autonomy which are promoted by social structures by involuntarily undoing experimental prerequisites of self-reflection (3). As a corollary to such reconstruction, the article advances notes to address the singular case of social acceleration from the perspective of social pathologies (4-6). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Norms regulate human behavior, mainly to maintain the social order. There are several institutional resources to control, Tyler (2006) suggest that legitimacy is an effective one to generate obedience. This paper, based on exploratory study, presents the characterization that university student have done about norms. Mainly, which they understand for norms, how they describe the relationship between argentines and norms and which is their general perception of the Argentine regulatory system. The result of focus groups, shows that there are a negative conception of norms in Argentina context, a low institutional confidence, a widespread perception of corruption and double standards normative system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Behavioral expectations established in a society based on specific coexistence conditions represent a definition schema on behaviors identified or not as deviant or antisocial actions according both informal rules and Constitution legal standards. This paper is focused to address antisocial activities by such recognition of potential threats they pose to a coexistence scenario, where tools of knowledge are provided by different areas, such as sociology, psychology and criminology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]