Deviation From Social Norms

Question 1

Weakness

Answer 1

Social norms created within a culture, limited by cultural relativism, different cultures have different expectations of behaviour, western culture receiving spiritual messages seen a schizophrenic but non-western cultures class it as a spiritual gift, may not be appropriate to use DSN to define abnormality outside a specific culture

Question 2

Strength

Answer 2

real life applications in diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder, mental health practitioners look at what is deemed acceptable and use this to diagnose abnormal behaviour, individual who engages in truant behaviour and lacks remorse is DSN, can judge whether abnormal behaviour and diagnose with ASPD, useful definition