Abstrakt: | Social pathology in its manifestations, causes and effects is
interrelated with culture of a community. It makes an element of
culture conceived in global and non-evaluating categories. The system
of culture forms a basis to determine the standard of rules and
normalities involving the psychosomatic and socio-cultural attributes
of a man, and his behaviour and actions as well. Culture involves
also the motivation for the self-evident rules and values, as well as
the mechanisms of their internalization. The function of culture consists
in the observance of the models actual to a community. Social
pathology is understood by the author as a defection from the standard
of the rules and normalities, involving social costs and harm. The
examination covered the cultural conditioning of social pathology
in an old housing-quarter treated in the categories of a socio-cultural
environment. The axionormative system of the examined environment,
characterized by the symptoms of intense pathology, was treated as a
basis of an individual and group „autoconception”, which through the
socialization-involving mechanisms, based mostly on experimantation
and imitation, consolidates pathology and promote its expansiveness.
This is intensified also by the old age of the quarter, understood
in the sense of valorization of housing space and in the aspect of the
diachronic stability of pathological behaviour in the environment
under examination, manifesting through the events of the intergenerational
transmition of pathology. |