Thread:LostGod2000/@comment-27586321-20141118063304/@comment-2059440-20141118225832

if I may simplify it:

neither are used in modern psychiatry but originally it went somewhat like this:

a sociopath is mentally unbalanced but a product of the society / upbringing of an individual.

a psychopath was "born" that way.

so while a sociopath traditionally is seen as a result of broken home, lack of values etc a psychopath was seen as coming from a stable home but still displaying abnormal behavior.