Deviation from social norms
- Created by: ewitor20
- Created on: 27-04-14 12:29
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- Abnormality (after revision)
- Deviation from social norms
- Explicit
- Behaviour that isn't acceptable by law
- Correction: established laws
- Behaviour that isn't acceptable by law
- Implicit
- Behaviour that appears to be unacceptable
- Correction: suggested expectations of behaviour
- Behaviour that appears to be unacceptable
- Abnormal behaviour is socially determined
- It is what society decides to be abnormal
- Abnormal behaviour is judged by a majority
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- For the greater good of society
- Takes into account how the behaviour of someone might affect other people
- Weaknesses
- Doesn't take context or degree into account
- Ignores culture
- Susceptible to abuse - what may have been considered socially unacceptable years ago, like homosexuality, is now acceptable
- Strengths
- Explicit
- Behaviour that violates the norms of a social group
- Violent, inappropriate, unpleasant behaviour
- + bizarre
- Violent, inappropriate, unpleasant behaviour
- Deviation from social norms
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