Norms
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The norm is me. At least that is what I thought as a child. What we did, how we acted, what we wore was the normal thing. What others did and we did not do was definitely not the norm. : established patterns of a particular society. (Sociology book definition). Webster's twentieth century dict ....
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.... us any because we thought we were different. We did not look like the teachers or like our parents. We took on our own norm, which then became the norm of our age and location. We were trying not to be normal, but ended up right in the middle of it.
As a freshman at Western Illinois University, I learned a whole new realm in the world of . We were taught about formal and informal , mores and folkways, and sanctions. Formal are what is written down and often take the form of laws. Form ....
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