For you‚ what is normal? After browsing lousily in the blog topics given and after three garbage drafts of different topics‚ at last‚ I found the one topic I really get to put my mind on. Actually‚ it interested me to write about this topic because this is one topic which a friend and I debated about. At that time‚ we had different views on how we say that a certain person is normal. I think everyone is just too normal and ordinary that everyone does different things
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What is Normal? Lorber’s Believing is Seeing: Biology as Ideology In her article Believing is Seeing‚ Judith Lorber writes of the very fine line between gender and sex. She argues that neither sex nor gender is a pure category of classification. They are more so just a combination of the two of them in the social construction of gender statuses. Her article uses sports and technological competence to show how society transforms physiological differences into gendered social bodies. Lorber’s perspective
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word “normal” really even has a meaning. My normal is different than someone else’s normal and the two different types of normal should not be compared. As I said before I do not think everyone in the world has a mental illness‚ but I do think nearly everyone does have a mental illness as some point in their life. With that being said‚ who is to say normal isn’t having a mental illness versus not having one. If more people do than don’t‚ wouldn’t it make more sense to say the majority is normal? I think
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What is Normal Aging? The aging process happens during an individual’s lifespan. We are all involved in this process and none can escape it. When one is young‚ aging is associated with growth‚ maturation‚ and discovery. Many human abilities peak before age 30‚ while other abilities continue to grow through life. The great majority of those over age 65 today are healthy‚ happy and fully independent. In spite of this‚ some individuals begin to experience changes that are perceived as signs of deterioration
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What is the normal range of emotions? The extent of the range of one’s emotions will vary from person to person and will be influenced by a litany of unpredictable and unforeseen circumstances that affect us in life. Experiencing fluctuations of emotions is completely normal. But dramatic swings in emotion can be physically taxing‚ mentally draining and put serious strain on our relationships and personal happiness. The different types of ranges‚ their symptoms and functional impairment is
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Conformity Within a Society. In our modern society‚ I believe that conformity is an essential factor for a human to learn and adapt to society’s values. In this society‚ people encourage conforming behavior from an individual. For example‚ our society has some unsaid sets of values‚ and norms‚ which guides an individual to act in a conforming manner. I believe that an individual behaves according to social norms in order to gain acceptance‚ achieve success‚ and be recognized. For example‚ the way
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What is Psychology? In my research of Psychology and its meaning I have come up with many definitions. To sum all of the definitions into one it’s the study ones feelings‚ thoughts‚ and their way of thinking and using all of there senses rather its cognitive‚ physical‚ or mental. Some other questions that came to mind during my research are what is normal psychology and what is abnormal psychology? What is normal psychology? Most people consider one to be normal if they seem to have no problems
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having the “normal” family that most kids seem to have growing up. I never had the family where the mom bakes all the time and takes her kids to soccer practice and drives a mini van‚ while the dad doesn’t come home until later at night just to help his kids with their homework and tells them goodnight while him and his wife talk about their day apart. Instead‚ I was the girl that had the parents that always fought about my mother’s drinking problem and how she was single-handedly ruining our family while
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The consumption of drug has been done in all societies for ages‚ but with the pass of the time it has changed the characteristics of the consumption. This situation is because the influence of social factors. Now days‚ our society is infest with this issue “DRUGS”. The use of most of the drugs are illegal‚ however it had become normal to use it. It is frequently see that its consumption can be from a regular kid to a high executive person. As an example we can go to the street and find a lot
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Heroin: What has it done to our society? Figure 1 (Some smoking heroin‚ Drug and Alcohol Rehab Headquarters‚ 2010) Talia Krebs-Oppenheimer Animal Behavior Professor Goldberg Abstract: Heroin is one of the worlds most dangerous drugs when addicted. It is widely used in American culture and many other places. This drug can be found throughout the world‚ one of the largest producers of opium in Afghanistan with Mexico coming in after it. Heroin comes from the opium poppy‚ which
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