Today's reading dealt with normalvy v. deviance. The first article said that normalcy was the psychical features that are ties to biology and deviance is the uncertain things that we do not know about. In the second article the norm was less about biology it was the ideal type of person and deviance were those who were "defective" or the extreme. These two articles and what we have talked about in class deal with the real world because it is how we look at people and classify them. For example in the second article we look at someone being of the norm if they have the ideal body with no imperfections yet at the same time these are just ideals and possibly not something that we can really achieve for example super models that we see on tv. In the first article deviance relates to the real world here because we try to link everything that is unknown to biology and if we can't then we find some other reason to why someone is the way we are. As stated in class we also describe someone as deviant because it is almost like a scape goat for scientists who cannot figure something out so instead of admiting their own flaws they make someone else seem flawed which contributes to us further classifying people as deviant. Again this all relates to today's world because this is how we still think. Another example is that we try to link problems with crime like in one of the articles they tried to link deafness to crime where as today we try to link drugs and violence together without looking at each individual and trying to figure out if there is something more wrong with them like they have a mental problem that was never diagnosed and instead of doing this we just say they are deviant and not the norm.
BY: Ashley D'Amore
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