Sociology / Unit 1 Soc 0035 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Dysfunction
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The idea
A dysfunction is an effect of a social pattern that is adverse for the system or for some group within it.
In practice
A hospital's readmission ranking is functional for administrators reporting the metric, but wards discharge patients early to dodge it — dysfunctional for those patients.
Where people slip
The same arrangement can be functional and dysfunctional at once, for different groups.
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