Normality Vs Abnormal Behavior Essay

Normal vs Abnormal Behaviour Each individual is unique from any other being, and to maintain that uniqueness in face of oppression and conformity it is a challenge and responsibility, (add). The concept of what is considered “normal” and “abnormal” has a meaning that is quantitative and statistic based on the occurrence of a behaviour in a given society. Behaviours are in fact a series of conventions that human beings establish among each others, they are untold rules and agreements based on the expectations that the people within that society set for their inhabitants.The concept of normality is not only descriptive, but it is also prescriptive in the way that it specify what an individual ought or ought not engage in. Often behind the concept of normality there are duties related to the religious, ethical, and social sphere of a given …show more content…
While I was observing the people that passed by me, I considered as “normal behaviour” any thing that attained to the norms I grew up with, and learned throughout my life. Some of the “normal” behaviours I listed on my log were: a father pushing his twin children on a stroller, a group of teenagers talking and sharing FroYo, a woman walking while listening to music and drinking an iced-coffee, a young man biking on the bike lane, and more. Essentially all the people that most blended in with the crowd. Contrarily, the people I listed as acting “abnormally” were all the individuals that in the crowd of people that populated the street on Thursday afternoon, were most noticeable to my eye, by not behaving in a way that I considered part of the culture specific behaviour I was in. For example, I saw a middle aged woman wearing a winter jacket in a hot summer morning, a young