Drosofila and other stories: meeting normality with certainty
Discussing the prevailing meanings of normality implies leaving certainty
apart and concentrating on those meanings that become prevailing across time
and space. The settlement of this question has immediate effects on how people
regard themselves and are considered from others. The article deals with the discussion
about the social construction of this evanescent concept, trying to define
some of the consequences that arise within different societies when normality and
abnormality become strictly normed. At the macro level, normalization processes
meet with rationalization processes, producing unexpected consequences.