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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (39932)	3/23/1999 7:27:00 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Johannes, One clitch in your presentation is the use of the words, deviancy and norm. A deviant is outside the range we would call the norm. In some of the presentations you give you argue that what was considered normal has changed, is changing, or at risk of changing. You can also deviate from a standard. This type of deviation doesn't reference the norm unless what is normal represents the standard. It seems you are using normal and standard interchangeably. If for example acceptance of political liars becomes commonly acceptable then, acceptence represents the norm of behavior, whereas, deviancy from the norm would be the person who refuses to accept this behavior. If the standard you are measuring against is truthfulness then deviancy from the standard can be referenced. Its not that I'm always this picky its for the sake of following posts from you, a "standards" referenced guy, vs Michelle a "norm" referenced person. Norm referencing generally involves making social comparisons and typically influences culture in a negative way, especially if you are able to look at long term sustained applications of social comparison.