Social Pathology Essay

Abstract
Chapter 2, Social Pathology and Perspectives, begin with Dr. Earl Rubington and Dr. Martin Weinberg explaining the origin of the concept of defining what to do about a Social Problem. This chapter discusses the organic analogy, child savers, and a universal criterion for pathology, how pathology is used in everyday life and the moral premise of social pathology.
The Concept of Social Problems First, Rubington and Weinberg suggest that urbanization, around the 19th century, was the root cause of social problems. The migration of farmers and countrymen into the cities and factories created situations where there were migrations from inside and outside of the American borders created unstable conditions for living and working.

Charles Henderson and Dr. Samuel Smith were credited with creating the skeleton framework of the social pathology perspective. Although they borrowed their concepts from different disciplines, they expounded on the concepts of organic analogy and pathology. Their values, ideas and reasoning were sound and cogent, which were adopted and widely accepted for generations. It is also noted that ‘social problems’ were an ambiguous and not always a rock solid and clear perspective according to Rubington and Weinberg because “the status quo” was the normal way of acting in earlier times and anyone going against the grain was seen as a deviant or a problem and a troubled person. Times have gotten better and social problems are more clearly defined

Dalton Conley observes that people in 1959 are different that people in 2009 and many roles have significantly changed from women’s role in society and the workplace down to the delivery boy or girl being an older delivery man or woman so that they can make some extra money on the side to feed their family or pay for additions on their house. Breakfast with the family has turned into a McCafe and simple has become complex with modernization of cell phones and the increase in overall salaries nearly quadrupling for some. The disappearance of families has been replaced with expensive cars, clothes and watches. Also Dr. Conley created a word that describes the multi-faceted persons we have become – intra-vidual. The intra-vidual - has many faces that are constantly in a state of competition to be at the forefront of the individuals own mind. For example, in our minds, despite our outward appearance, we want to be fast, stronger, smarter, richer, more beautiful, the boss at our jobs. These personalities want to control the individual and fight to everyday. On the outside we all face the same fight by being barraged and blitzed by life barreling towards us at a million miles per hour and it gets frustrating but necessary to cope with all of these events coming at us. Dr. Conley believes that intravidualism has trumped in many ways the thought of individualism. Individualism was the basis of American society and the ethical principle used to get people to be independent