Now, along with functions, we also have social dysfunction, which is any social pattern that disrupts the smooth operation of society.

除了“社会功能”，我们也有“社会失调”的概念。“社会失调”是指打破社会的正常平稳运作的社会模式。

And, of course, speaking a language does not necessarily mean that someone understands social and cultural patterns.

所以会说某种语言并不一定就代表理解某个社会文化模式。

But the result was a new social pattern which, although it resembled European society in many ways, had a character that was distinctly American.

但其结果是一种新的社会模式，尽管它在许多方面与欧洲社会相似，但具有明显的美国特色。

Workers also will be able to study non-health data on climate or social media patterns to predict and prepare for local disease outbreaks or health emergencies.

工作人员还可以研究关于气候或社交媒体模式的非健康数据，以预测和应对当地疾病暴发或突发性卫生事件。

Then she documented the social patterns that she observed in America, and contrasted the values that Americans thought they held, with the values that were actually enshrined in their economic and political systems.

然后，她记录了她在美国观察到的社会模式，并将美国人自认为持有的价值观与他们经济和政治制度中实际奉行的价值观进行了对比。

That's why discrimination studies are prominent in social psychology research, and they can also predict, sometimes with scary accuracy, how discrimination might show up in broad social patterns, like wage inequality and job opportunity gaps.

这就是歧视研究在社会心理学研究中占有重要地位的原因，它们还可以预测（有时准确度惊人）歧视如何在广泛的社会模式中出现， 例如工资不平等和工作机会差距。