What Makes Something Deviant?
What makes behaviour deviant, and who gets to decide? This article explores social norms, labelling, stigma, power and why definitions of deviance change across time, place and social groups.
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Where Do Our Ideas About ‘Normal’ Come From?
What feels normal is often something we have learned. This article explores how norms, values, socialisation and power shape our ideas about acceptable behaviour, and why ‘normal’ changes across time and place.
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Quiet Neurodivergence, Spoons, and the Sociology of Invisible Struggle
This article develops quiet neurodivergence as a way of naming how some neurodivergent people appear to cope in education, work and civic life while absorbing hidden costs in masking, energy use and burnout. Drawing on neurodiversity, spoon theory, stigma and camouflaging research, and critical disability studies, it argues that quiet neurodivergence is produced by neuronormative institutions and patterned by class, race, gender and access to diagnosis.
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