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Dr. John Lamberton, Clinical Sociologist Putting Sociology to Work INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY NORMALITY Proprietary Lecture Notes |
Normality
(according to David Dalton) is a collective
social perception that exists in culture and a personal belief that
resides in the SUPEREGO aspect of personality according to Sigmund
Freud or the ME aspect of personality according to George Herbert
Mead.
In our society, the people who make
the rules are those in power or in control of the direction of
society. There are groups of people who set the direction of what
is normal.
However, in a consumer-based society,
the buying public often constructs many of the important elements of
culture.
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How do you perceive normality in others?
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Do
you believe that you are normal and act normally?
The following
article
is a discussion of mental health according to the Mayo Clinic.
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