My Definition Of Normal

Society tends to have a set definition of what “normal” means as well as how people should behave. The view a population has on normality is an outcome of culture, individuals, and the environment that surrounds it. A person is raised to regard behavior in a certain way, which tends to result in them having a fixed opinion of what is acceptable. An issue of this phenomenon arises when people cannot endure others having a different standpoint on what is customary. It causes individuals to argue and leads to the inferior giving in, submitting to those whose views are much more socially accepted. When the majority pressures their opinions on

Popularity is one of the most commonly studied peer interaction phenomenon. Initially these studies assigned participants to one of the following standard sociometric categories: popular, rejected, neglected, average, and controversial. These studies faded away for two main reasons. The first is that this model neglected to take the school structure into consideration when studying popularity. It ignored that due to the transition between classes starting in middle school students no longer have a small and stable social component that social interactions and sociometric status could be based on. The second is that popularity depends on the adolescents’ perception of popularity rather than how well liked an adolescent is. Popularity heavily depends on the

    There are, apparently, many qualifications that you have to reach in order to be popular. If you did not wear the same brand of clothing or did not act like them, you were not popular. In the fifth grade, I was bullied from two main girls that I foolishly wanted to be. Well not a bully ,but to be “popular” like them. One of the two girls was my friend. At least I thought she was. I guess she was using me for when her and her best friend would get into a fight and then she would use me for a friend. She told me i was her friend; she just did not want her best friend to find out she was hanging with me. In other words, she was embarrassed of me. Her best friend was the

In our society we have a number of society norms that we abide by. For example, there is an unwritten rule of how one should behave in an elevator. For example, it is proper to face front, stand away from strangers, and not to look at others. When a social norm is broken people may respond with alarm, humor, fear, irritation, or an array of other emotions. When you think of a norm, you are probably thinking about being normal. But in psychology terms, norm means, a standard or representative value for a group. The norm that is more common to people is a social norm. Meaning expectations about what behavior, thoughts, or feelings are appropriate within a given group within a given context.

In all aspects of the lives we live, normal can not ever be defined as a single idea. If normal is such a thing at all, it is a subjective opinion and can only be defined on an individual level. Everything we interpret is relative to our upbringing and our environment. Not one person had the same upbringing or lived in the same environment as another person for even siblings who have lived together their whole lives have different nurturing experiences. The differentiation between normal and abnormal is a topic of much debate. The meaning of normality varies in many ways such as by person, time, place, situation, culture and set of values. Normality is usually seen as good and desirable by society and what society thinks while abnormality may be seen as bad or undesirable (Boundless).

It's such a loaded word, with about a billion different meanings, and every one of them makes Ava Collins sick.

When we say normal, we take in to mind what we see on TV and in magazines. TV plays the biggest part in our country's depiction of normal because pretty much every household has a television. If you asked majority of Americans what their idea of a normal family was, they would probably describe something similar to my family; two married parents, a few children, living in a ranch style house, in a middle class neighborhood. Even though this is our idea of normal, it really doesn't seem that way anymore. TV families are changing, and fewer "normal" families can be seen on today's sitcoms. The divorce rate is always getting higher, more and more families are moving into brand new subdivisions, and getting away from the normal seems to be the thing to do these days. I think that the vision of "normal" is slowly changing, mainly because the middle-class families are changing. To me, middle-class and normal go hand in hand.

Normal is constantly used to oppress and silence those who do not fit under this definition constructed by institutional forces within society. These institutions have been created to serve as building blocks for society, to guide the public. Originally, these institutions were started to protect and create order, but in today’s world, they provide no protection. However, if an individual does not fit within the system’s socially constructed idea they are objectified for being “different”. This is especially clear when it comes to sexuality. If society were to denaturalize gender and sexuality, then there would be a way to look at everyone as unique, that “normal” does not exist because everything is historically and socially constructed.

Many readers have questioned what is meant by the term normal or what is considered to be normal throughout both texts. We can all agree that norms are standards by which individuals live by in a society. At times, members of a society have displayed behaviors which demonstrates the idea they have not changed and continue to single out everything and everyone not considered part of the norm. Unfortunately, our society has related normality with an individual’s appearance. Therefore, individuals are only allowed to belong to a society if they display a normal life or be mistreated by those who do not portray them as worthy of belonging. For example, if we act or look like everyone else them we are considered to be normal. Therefore the idea

Everyday I wonder it feels like to be normal. To think that the worst pain is a slammed finger. To not give up my dreams of being whatever I wanted to be. To think that cold is the sickest I could ever get. The privilege of sleeping without pain following you in your dreams to awake and realize it was only a nightmare. To be normal and go to college and work. What does it feels like to not being trapped in body filled with pain. I don't know but sometimes I dream that know what it feels like to be healthy.

What is normalcy? It is a fairly simple question, until one really takes the time to ponder such a thought. What my parents and their generation consider “normal” is quite different from what I have grown up perceiving as “normal”, so who is right? Is there even clear connotation? From 470 BC to 399 BC, one philosopher chose to push these theories of normalcy. Socrates, opposed such things as labor or involving himself in the ways of government, things that were considered necessary for prosperity. Instead he chose to live in poverty, teaching not of what he believed or knew, but attempting to get others to think for themselves. This “Socratic method” of questioning without expounding demonstrated to the citizens of Greece how to arrive at

Have you ever not been friends or friendly with someone because they are different? A lot of people can relate to this if they go to school, popularity can hurt a lot of people. The Rainbow Fish put himself before others, whoever tried to be nice to him wouldn’t get a friendly interaction back. At first, everybody wanted to be friends with him, but not till’ after they encountered him, they realized he wasn't who they thought he was. This relates a lot to popularity, you want to be friends with the popular people, but when you get to know them they aren’t as nice as you thought.

In simplest terms, normalcy is the state of being normal. Likewise, gender normalcy is what is expected from each gender in our society due to the gender roles that we have learned from the media, our ancestors, and our society as a whole; the media, however, is the main agent of gender normalcy.

The first reason to support this claim is that normal does not exist in the first place. This is true because we as a society have coined the word normal as a term to describe someone that is just like the others. Although in reality, everyone is different. Whether it is social differences.like in the case of Curtis from the curious incident, physical or mental we

Sexuality is one of the most central concerns of our lives, influencing our choice of romantic partners/spouses and determining how happy we are with our life partners and with our lives. However, not all sexual influences and sexual practices meet the “normal” standards. This paper will discuss the sexual disorders that may influence many abnormal sexual behaviors that known cultures do not accept. It will also define the boundaries between normality and psychopathology in the area of variant sexuality. Additionally, it will discuss degeneracy and abstinence theories.