psyc
- Created by: Ikra Amin
- Created on: 07-05-14 13:55
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- Deviation from social norms
- Social norms are the rules that a society has about how people should think or behave
- These rules may be:
- Explicit: Set down as codes of conduct/law
- Implicit: "understood" but not fully stated (e.g. not talking to yourself really loud in public)
- Abnormal behavior can therefore be regarded as anything that deviates from the social norm
- These rules may be:
- Explicit: Set down as codes of conduct/law
- Implicit: "understood" but not fully stated (e.g. not talking to yourself really loud in public)
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