AO3

• Real world application

  • deviation from social norms is useful in diagnosis
  • Antisocial personality disorder - diagnosis requires failure to conform to ethical standards
  • Means it’s used in psychiatric diagnosis
• Situationally and culturally relative

  • what is normal in one culture is different from another
  • e.g hearing voices is socially acceptable in some cultures but in the UK it would be classed as abnormal
  • Means it is difficult to judge between from social norms from one context to another