abnormality - deviation from social norms

Question 1

what is the second definition of abnormality?

Answer 1

deviation from social norms

Question 2

what is deviation form social norms?

Answer 2

behaviour that is different from the accepted standards of the community
groups of people choose to define behaviour as abnormal on the basis that it offends their sense of what is accepted as the norm

Question 3

what are examples of deviation of social norms?

Answer 3

homosexuality was considered as abnormal and illegal
social judgement that psychopaths are abnormal because they don’t conform to moral standards

Question 4

deviation from norms
+P: real world application

Answer 4

key in defining APD (failure to conform to culturally acceptable behaviours)
D: plays apart of the diagnosis for schizotypical personality disorder where the term ‘strange’ is used to to characterise those with the disorder

Question 5

-P: social norms vary within cultures

Answer 5

hearing voices in some cultures is a sign of receiving a message from ancestors