Deviation from social norms

• What is deviation from social norms?

  When a person behaves in a way that is different from how we expect people to behave
• Who defines behaviour as 'abnormal' on the basis that it accepts their sense of what is the 'norm'?

  Social groups
• There are few behaviours that would be considered universally abnormal on the basis that they breach social norms
• What is an example of deviation from social norms?

  Antisocial personality disorder
• How does a person with antisocial personality disorder behave?

  Impulsively, aggressively and irresponsibly
• According to the DSM-5 what is an important symptom of antisocial personality disorder?

  An 'failure to conform to lawful and culturally normative ethical behaviour'
• Antisocial personality disorder

  Making the social judgement that psychopaths are abnormal because they don't conform to our moral standards - would be considered abnormal in a very wide range of cultures