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interacting with life based out of desperation and necessity. While I was in secondary school I was not interested in following the crowd. If I chose to have friends, they were usually the ones that were considered strange and were outcasts of the social norm. I spent all my time on the sidelines watching the popular people bow to peer pressure and felt disgusted by them. If I felt that someone was being treated unfairly I would jump to their defense immediately. My actions resulted in my being…

He disrupts the ridged social norms of the church and comparatively grasps the nature of homosexuality in a way that demonstrates anarchy toward the aforementioned place. We gain insight toward the representation of the American motorbike cult and the disruption of societal beliefs and…

challenged much by women; in fact, women did not see anything wrong with them because they were taught that it was the norm. This is where interpellation comes in—where it has always been in regards to women’s agency. The idea…

foolishly? In social psychology, people are inclined to conform to the norms or standards of a group or an authority in order to fit in and find their sense of belonging. However, individuals could suffer from the pressure of the norms, and their conformity could lead to terrible results. In Annie Proulx’s short story Brokeback Mountain, Jack’s and Ennis’s pursuits of happiness are thwarted by complying with the heterocentric social norms. Similarly, the afflictions of conformity are reflected…

NAMBLA’s actions were considered acceptable by the members. NAMBLA’s actions also are not normative. Almost all of Americans have sex with the opposite gender that is around their same age and this is considered a cultural norm. Therefore, NAMBLA’s actions go against the norm and are abnormal. NAMBLA’s actions are unexpected as well. It is not often you hear a story about a secret underground group that has sex with boys. When you think about a sex scandal story you probably think of an…

Beyond the Socially Acceptable There are many things that can be said about Decadent poetry. It’s central themes are numerous, from aestheticism and beauty for the sake of it, to paganism and the urban, there are a multitude of angles one can take when analysing and interpreting the work of the poets of the fin du siècle. One of those themes is the idea of transgression; going beyond the limits and the law, exploring what is socially acceptable and more importantly what isn’t, and the…

Humans are extremely social creatures and it is a human trait to desire to be liked by others. This all goes back to hunter gatherer societies were if you were not a part of a group you would most likely die; only the humans that stayed together and did the same things as the rest of the group lived on. Going against the pack could get you lost and even killed. This happens nowadays but instead of it being purely on a survival motive, we do it to simply ‘fit in’. Peer pressure has a strong…

As Woodward states, a person can be distinguished by their appearance; the way you dress comes with a stigma of where you emanate from and your culture. Since the student could not relate to our identities, he assumed we were outside of the social norms of the game. He made judgment based on our exterior, for which I do not blame him because the media plays a role in how Muslims are portrayed. Since football is an American patriotic game, he might have misinterpreted my friends and I sitting as…

The Coquette and The Awakening show female desire to break the constraints placed on women in the 19th century. In The Coquette, Eliza Wharton is presented with two choices, one man or the other. The option never exists for her to simply not be with a man, to not conform to the societal expectation of women. The Awakening presents Edna Pontellier, a wife and a mother, transforming from the ideal picture of woman to pursuing her own desires. Women’s desire is not only shown from the plot, the…

completing all the household chores because it was the social norm in the time period! The first half go this excerpt is to accentuate the attitude of women preparing food…