Part one of term paper
The norm is me. At least that is what I thought as a child. What we did, how we acted, what we wore was the normal thing. What others did and we did not do was definitely not the norm. : established patterns of a particular society. (Sociology book definition). Webster's twentieth century dictionary defines a norm as: a standard, model, ...

Part two of term paper
... a teenager. At that time I was needing something different. I did not want to be called normal, and I did not want anyone to look at me as normal. However, when everyone else in Junior High and High School are trying not to be normal, the norm becomes what we are trying to make it not be. That didn't bother us any because we thought we were different. We did not look like the teachers or like our parents. We took on our own norm, which then became the norm of our age and location. We were try ...