SOC 107- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 33 pages long!)
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What is seen as the regular; following the norms. People that seem to not be following the norms are often stigmatized. Ideas of what is normal are always changing. Ideas that are normal in this generation can be much different from previous generations. We all come to choices and strategies of how to manage what is normal and what is not. Some people flee (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g (cid:858)(cid:374)or(cid:373)al(cid:859) a(cid:374)d lo(cid:448)e def(cid:455)i(cid:374)g it. Issues of being normal and abnormal through mental health is often stigmatized/ People often do not ask why something is normal because it seems so seldom, and seems that it is just the way it should be. How ideas get communicated, and how people learn from one another about what is normal. What is normal is usually communicated through unspoken processes through which we learn what to do in different kinds of situations.
