normalism

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Normality

   Normality; A state in which most things are normal.

   • There is very little normalism in the English language, and the attempt to reduce it to stricter rules is necessarily a failure.
2. 2

   A system of beliefs concerning how one determines what is considered normal.

   • The 1968 movement pressed against the boundaries of any normalism.
   • The fact that the borders of normality (as opposed to normative norms) are on a statistical continuum, and always moveable, accounts for the historical dynamic of normalism.
3. 3

   A tendency to consider most deviations as within the bounds of "normal".

   • Although a program of reason and moderation, normalism is not a program of compromise or opportunism.
   • Normalism was the normal school philosophy which relied on a positivist and evolutionary approach to learning; it was called by its practitioners “the science of progress and the science of man.”
   • Flexible normalism follows the assumption that people reach the periphery of society by chance.
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   1. 4

      A bias against the abnormal.

      • These are stories about normalism (Corbett 1994). Part of the experience of being marginalised and dominated also has to do with the way some of 'us' call 'others' (Abberley 1987).

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