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Definitions of Abnormality
Deviation from social norms
Evaluation
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Billy Dudden
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Real-world application
One strength of deviation from social norms is its
usefulness
:
It is used in
clinical practice
- e.g. diagnosing
APD
,
schizotypal personality disorder
Therefore, deviation from
social norms
has value in
psychiatry
Cultural and situational
relativism
One limitation of deviation from social norms is the
variability
between social norms in different
cultures
and
situations
:
Social norms are
arbitrary
and
subjective
; they change over
time
and between
cultures
e.g.
homosexuality
E.g.
hearing voices
may be an important part of a
culture
, whereas other cultures may diagnose it as
schizophrenia
Therefore it is difficult to judge
deviation from social norms
across different
situations
and
cultures