Pathologies of contemporary democracy

Abstract

The article highlights the fact that pathology as the social phenomena is present in various social groups, organizations, institutions, and is strictly related to the development of societies. Pathology compromises the violation of social balance, which weakens the social bounds, the system of social norms and values and furthermore the regulation of the mechanism of social control. In the analysis the basic terms are coined and addressed together with certain criteria concerning the classification of pathological phenomenon. Enhanced facts referring to the condition of modern democracy and pathological problems it has to overcome are provided in the study.