Deviation from ocial norms as a definition of abnormality

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  • Created on: 07-12-17 14:42
What is deviation from social norms?
a person behaves in a way that is different from how we expect people to behave
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What are we making?
a collective judgement as a society about what is right
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Norms are specific to the culture we live in - when may the social norms be different?
for each generation and every culture
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Norms are specific to the culture we live in - therefore, what are there few of?
behaviours that would be considered universally abnormal on the basis that they breach social norms
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Norms are specific to the culture we live in - what is an example?
homosexuality continues to be viewed as abnormal in some cultures and was considered abnormal in our society in the past
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What is an example of deviation from soial norm?
antisocial personality disorder
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What characteristics does a person with antisocial personality disorder have?
impulsiveness, aggressivenes and irresponsibility
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What is one important symptom of antisocial personality disorder according to the DSM-V?
an 'absence of prosocial internal standards associated with failure to conform to lawful or culturally normative ethical behaviour'
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What are we making judgments of?
making social judgements that a psychopath is abnormal because they don't want to conform to our moral standards.
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