Abstract
An approach of social pathology from social formation is possible through the examination of the concept of anomie. The contradiction between desire and means is contained in anomie as a basic framework. Since anomie may be grasped as historical and social matters, such contradiction may be understanded as the structural contradiction which is between the desire of acquiring money or status and the means of class or social status.
Anomie is the matter of social norms containning such contradiction. We should recognize the contradiction between the norm concerning desire and the one concerning means firstly, and the contradiction between class moment and trans-class moment inhering in social norms secondly. Anomie should be conceptualized as the contradiction between the general influence of the trans-class moment (being latent of class moment) in the norm concerning desire and concretly realizing of the class moment (formality or abstraction of trans-class moment) in the norm concerning means.
Anomie is the reflection of the structural pathological quality of capitalistic social formation, and makes it's appearance as the dysfunction - as the loss of the meanings as the norm of act - of the super structure (Überbau) of the social formation as alienation state (Entfremdung Wesen). Because the contradiction between desire and means or of social norms concerning these matters is duing to the domination of wares over every social realm, that is, wares fetishism (money fetishism) and the metamorphosis of labor-power into wares (class relation of exploiters-exploitees).
On the other hand, the pathological quality of anomie may be realized as anomic situation. Because the norm of act which orientate behaviours of individuals really works in the dimension of social situation. Thus, it will be clear that anomie takes the position of the medium between the social formation as alienation state and the particular social phathological phenomena.
