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is necessarily dependent on the idea of the abnormal, the deviant, the madman, the criminal.

But an idea of the 'normal' also implies the existence of the abnormal: the madman, the criminal and the deviant are the reverse side of this coin. An idea of deviance is possible only where norms exist.

is, along with the stigmatized, not persons, but perspectives.

The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives. Erving Goffman

is best understood via the study of the abnormal.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

is a person who is different from people who are different.

is just the alien grown accustomed to us.

is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

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