What exactly do you mean by societal dysfunction? Or is it like pornography: you know it when you see it.
So, any situation where dictates of a society creates a suboptimal social interaction could be considered a social dysfunction?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/minority-report/2014...
> in shame-based cultures, public humiliation, scorn, or censure are relied upon more heavily to keep individuals in obedience whereas the western notion of guilt and corrective behaviors comes from an individual’s development of an internal conscience.
Or Midwestern culture's mix of religosity, conformist individualism and confirmation bias, and the resultant suicide and opioid addiction epidemic.
Check the NIH for studies, though the bulk of the literature is behind the academic paywall.