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What Is 'Normal'?

Week of: 
February 19, 2012
First Aired: 
March 14, 2010
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Norms
Normativity
Difference
Culture
Self
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What does it mean to be normal?  And abnormal?  Who gets to decide, and what are the repercussions?  When do we applaud deviations from the norm, when do we condemn them, and why?  John and Ken take a look at the uses and abuses of making judgments about normality with Charles Scott from Vanderbilt University, author of Living With Indifference and The Language of Difference.

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Charles E. Scott, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University

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