Above, I have presented proposals for how sociological diagnoses can be defined based on various thinkers, providing a heuristic starting point when using the concept. The concept should not be reified in the same way as is attempted in psychiatric diagnostics. Following this, proposals for various criteria are presented, followed by etiology, that is, causes.
Below is a catalog of various diagnoses in a condensed version, without delving into causes or criteria. The primary purpose is to offer a suggestion of what the catalog might contain, linked to a framework that establishes a systematic classification of the multitude of sociological diagnoses that have been made.
Below is a review of imbalances/misalignments across 19 different balance dimensions. Imbalances are a proposed framework for understanding sociological diagnoses. Above, I have reviewed examples of some sociological diagnoses that will be embedded within the ABT framework. First comes a brief explanation of the balance dimension, followed by a brief explanation of what a state of balance is within each dimension. These diagnoses are heuristic proposals because the identified imbalances are heuristic (Berglund, 2026).
The following is a partially abridged version of Chapter 4 of The Mediocre Society and Aristotelian Balance Theory (Berglund, 2026). In that chapter, I presented a catalog of sociological diagnoses that can be applied at various levels. This is considered necessary so that readers of this book will not need to read the earlier book. However, these books should be viewed as complementary to one another, since the ideas behind both books originated in sociotherapy and sociological diagnoses. ABT came later as a way to frame the diagnoses. Using a partially abridged version of that chapter is considered reasonable, given that the majority of this book consists of other, new content, as I explained in Section 1.2. Potential contributions claimed by this study. Because the text has been abridged and modified, much of the reasoning underlying why a balance dimension has been constructed as it has and what constitutes a state of balance within that dimension will not be as well, founded as in Berglund (2026). The focus here is primarily on imbalances as sociological diagnoses. In Section 6, “Socioaskes and Sociopharmaka,” states of balance will be discussed further in the context of how one can become less unbalanced.