Identifying Cases of the Social Breakdown Syndrome

1966 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest M. Gruenberg ◽  
Sydney Brandon ◽  
Richard V. Kasius
Keyword(s):  
Social Breakdown ◽  
The Social

The Inpatient Scale of Minimal Functioning: A Revision of the Social Breakdown Syndrome Gradient Index.

1976 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 1021-1022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon L. Paul ◽  
Joel P. Redfield ◽  
Robert J. Lentz
Keyword(s):  
Gradient Index ◽  
Social Breakdown ◽  
The Social

The Assessment of Social Breakdown in Newly-Admitted Psychiatric Patients

1975 ◽  
Vol 127 (5) ◽  
pp. 417-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. R. L. Clemmey ◽  
D. Kennard ◽  
B. M. Mandelbrote
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnosis ◽  
Quantitative Assessment ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Level Of Functioning ◽  
Social Breakdown ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family

SummaryThis paper presents a study of patients' social and domestic functioning preceding admission to a psychiatric hospital. A method is described for the quantitative assessment of ‘social breakdown’ in the areas of work, domestic performance and social group activity, based on reports from the patient and from another household member. Complementary changes in the domestic tasks carried out by other family members are also investigated. The sample consisted of 28 women and 17 men. Their usual level of functioning and their degree of breakdown are related to psychiatric diagnosis on admission, to the patient's position within the family and to the social class of the household. Discrepancies between reports are also investigated in relation to these variables.

The Social Breakdown Syndrome in the Elderly Population Living in the Community: the Helping Study

1987 ◽  
Vol 151 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. S. Radebaugh ◽  
F. J. Hooper ◽  
E. M. Gruenberg
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Elderly Population ◽  
Functional Limitations ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Social Breakdown ◽  
Psychiatric Status ◽  
White Males ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dementing Disorders

A representative sample of elderly people residing in the community was examined to establish their psychiatric status. An interview with a close friend or relative, focusing on a one-week period in 1981, was used to investigate each subject's functional limitations and troublesome behaviour, these being the two components of the Social Breakdown Syndrome. The data from the sample were weighted to allow estimates of the characteristics of the general population. No cases of SBS at its most extreme were identified, and almost the entire population was found to be functioning at an adequate or near-adequate level: all cases of severe SBS were attributable to troublesome behaviour. Severe SBS was shown to increase with age and to be most common in non-white males. Persons with dementing disorders were more likely than their non-demented counterparts to show severe/moderate SBS, but in the majority of cases of SBS there was no mental disorder.

The Social Breakdown Syndrome-Some Origins

1967 ◽  
Vol 123 (12) ◽  
pp. 1481-1489 ◽  
Author(s):  
ERNEST M. GRUENBERG
Keyword(s):  
Social Breakdown ◽  
The Social

Podcast Review: The Social Breakdown

2021 ◽  
pp. 0092055X2110633
Author(s):  
Christine Crofts
Keyword(s):  
Social Breakdown ◽  
The Social

Lucretius

2020 ◽  
pp. 429-455
Author(s):  
Monica R. Gale
Keyword(s):  
Political Competition ◽  
Atomic Interaction ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
De Rerum Natura ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Social Breakdown ◽  
Original Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

This chapter explores distinctive features of Lucretius’s presentation of Epicureanism, particularly his use of verse and the interplay between the poem’s overt concern with physics and its underlying ethical message. The De rerum natura—it is argued—seeks constantly to bring out the ethical corollaries of Epicurus’s physical theory (emphasizing, for example, the harmful consequences of belief in vengeful deities; the self-destructive behaviours, on both the individual and the social level, that stem ultimately from the fear of death; and the futility of uncontrolled desire). While adhering closely to the writings of Epicurus himself, and showing little interest either in subsequent developments within the school or in contemporary inter-school polemics, the poem does, arguably, seek in various ways to adapt the arguments of the founder to the purview of its Late Republican audience. The chapter briefly considers the extent to which Lucretius adapted, or redeployed, arguments originally directed at Platonic/Academic targets as weapons against contemporary Stoicism, and notes other areas—particularly religion and human-animal relationships—where the poet can be seen to give his own distinctive slant to Epicurus’s teachings. Lucretius’s justification for his highly unorthodox use of poetic form is examined in detail, and the chapter concludes with the suggestion that the De rerum natura self-consciously pits Epicureanism against Roman aristocratic ideology, both through its highly original analysis of contemporary political competition and social breakdown, and—more subtly—through its employment of “social metaphor” and depiction of atomic interaction as a microcosm of human society.

Crime, Police, and Samosudy in Petrograd in the Russian Revolution and Sociological Theories of Anomie

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 275-296
Author(s):  
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Mixed Population ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Emile Durkheim ◽  
Social Breakdown ◽  
The Social ◽  
Organic Solidarity ◽  
Mechanical Solidarity

This article attempts to assess the importance of social breakdown in the Russian Revolution. It argues that Petrograd experienced an unprecedented rise in violent crime from March to October, which reduced the society to a state of anomie. The article introduces the sociological concepts of anomie developed by Emile Durkheim and Robert Merton. Introducing Durkheim’s theory that anomie results from the breakdown of “organic solidarity” that assures cohesion in an advanced society, and Merton’s theory that anomie arises when the cultural structures and the social structures break down, the article attempts to examine how these theories can be applicable to the reality of Petrograd during the revolution. Durkheim argues that when “organic solidarity” fails, “mechanical solidarity,” characterized by collective conscious, emotion, and violence, takes over. In this article this theory is applied to explain the violence in samosudy. The article further attempts to identify those who committed crime, who participated in samosudy, and where crime and samosudy took place. It argues that crime and samosudy took place in the central and southern districts of Petrograd with a mixed population of predominantly urban poor and the lower rung of the middle class, rather than in the working-class neighborhoods. It argues that samosudy were reflections of the frustrations of the urban poor, who achieved momentary empowerment by exerting violence against petty criminals. Popular violence committed by criminal acts and by samosudy provided an important background for the Bolshevik assumption of power.

Geriatric Sexuality Breakdown Syndrome

1981 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merrie Jean Kaas
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
End Point ◽  
Social Breakdown ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

This paper focuses on the relationship between the social environment and the older individual. By utilizing the Social Breakdown Syndrome [1, 2] as a basis for examining this relationship, the author has proposed a cycle of events, the Geriatric Sexuality Breakdown Syndrome, in which an older individual is initially predisposed to diminished sexual activity to the end point of self-identification as non-sexual. Suggestions for interrupting this breakdown syndrome are given.

scholarly journals Post-Utopia: The Long View

Humanities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
David Konstan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Present Article ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Self ◽  
The Third ◽  
Social Breakdown ◽  
Roman Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Near Future

The present article is divided into three parts. The first discusses the nature of utopias and their hypothetical anti-type, dystopias, and also disaster scenarios that are sometimes assimilated to dystopias, with reference also to the idea of post-utopia. An argument is made for the continuity of the utopian impulse, even in an age when brutal wars and forms of oppression have caused many to lose faith in any form of collectivity. Representations of social breakdown and its apparent opposite, totalitarian rigidity, tend to privilege the very individualism that the utopian vision aspires to overcome. The second part looks at examples of each of these types drawn from classical Greek and Roman literature, with a view to seeing how utopias were conceived at a time before the emergence of the modern ideology of the pre-social self. Finally, the third part examines several stories from the collection A People’s Future of the United States which imagine life in the near future. While most illustrate the failure of confidence in the social that has encouraged the intuition that a utopian future is passé, one, it is suggested, reconceives the relation between the individual and the social in a way that points to the renewed possibility of the utopian.

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