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chapter 1 Unstable Social Conformity within "Normal" Behavior -- chapter 2 Th eories of Personality and the Equivocation of "Normalcy" -- chapter 3 Stress, Coping, and Social Conformity -- chapter 4 Conformists versus Nonconformists -- chapter 5 Th e "Normal" Psychopath -- chapter 6 Social Conformity in a Polarized Society.

The situation caused by the appearance of Covid-19 can be viewed as a critical event: typologically, it is an unprecedented event, which requires and shapes new forms of historical action hitherto unknown in the given context. Critical events serve as strong value and emotional landmarks in the cultural cognition of each social environment, and form the basis for a meaningful determination towards other events. Using material collected primarily from the online versions of electronic and printed media, we consider how the reality they presented is shaped through the news through the statements of politicians and medical doctors in Serbia. We trace how the narrative transformation of socio-cultural reality took place from the time before the of Covid-19 outbreak in our country to the time immediately after the lifting of the state of emergency declared due to that infection. The premise of all that is being done to tackle the infection is not a purpose in itself, but aims to enable a return to the life we were accustomed to before the outbreak of the epidemic. Covid-19 destabilizes our everyday life - a life that consists of work or study, use of free time, socializing etc. Such everyday life is a reference point of "normalcy". Socio-cultural normalcy refers to all that is understood as a normal and undisturbed course of everyday life. The appearance of Covid-19 gave rise to the notion of the "new normal", that is, a course of everyday life that is similar to normal, ordinary life, but with adherence to measures aimed at preventing the spread of infection by the authorities. In the paper we deal with the period that begins just before the outbreak of Covid-19 in our country, and ends with the period after the lifting of the state of emergency, to show the discursively produced picture of social reality in which the concept of the "new normal" serves as a cultural cognitive tool for understanding a situation in which one has to live with Covid-19 in order to one day be able to return to the way of life that existed before it.

While psychiatry and the neurosciences have dismissed the concept of neurosis as too vague for medical purposes, in recent years literary studies have adopted the term by virtue of its abstractness. This volume investigates the verbalization of neurosis in literary and cultural texts. As opposed to the medical diagnostics of neurosis in the individual, the contributions focus on the poetics of neurosis. They indicate how neuroses are still routinely romanticized or vilified, bent to suit aesthetic and narrative choices, and transfigured to illustrate unresolved cultural tensions.

The constructions of deafness and social representations of a deaf child are very complicated and
deeply contested. This paper examines the constructions of deafness and how it has been sociohistorically
framed and re-framed within the parameters of normalcy and deviance. Such analysis may
offer insight on the potential impact of shaping ideology, politics, and what it means to be deaf. This
level of analysis is conducted via an examination of the socio-history of deaf education including discussions
of the ongoing "paradigm wars" between certain social control institutions, mainly American
Sign Language-based (or called English-based) and the oral-based educational institutions and its
implications of language. Examining these two social control institutions will seek to uncover certain
constructions within specific social representations and societal dynamics that may shape the deaf
child's identity, its version of "natural" gifts, social inequality, and ultimately the types of ideologies
constructed toward deaf students. A possible alternative view of reapproprating of the corporeal differences
of deafness is discussed including positive strategies to minimize reproduced social stratification,
oppression, social inequality, and divisions when dealing with deafness.

Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic has been transforming economic, political and social realities into a so-called "new normalcy". Learning to cope with this contingency requires (re)construction of people's identity. In this study, we critically analyze the narratives of change and the consumption practices of Brazilians interviewed during the period of social distancing. We follow a critical social-psychological approach based on the works of Fromm, Rosa and Kühn. Our results show that the pandemic encourages people to reflect responsibly on their consumption, but also highlight how consumption contributes to the reproduction of social inequality, leading to polarizations within society.

Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic has been transforming economic, political and social realities into a so-called "new normalcy". Learning to cope with this contingency requires (re)construction of people's identity. In this study, we critically analyze the narratives of change and the consumption practices of Brazilians interviewed during the period of social distancing. We follow a critical social-psychological approach based on the works of Fromm, Rosa and Kühn. Our results show that the pandemic encourages people to reflect responsibly on their consumption, but also highlight how consumption contributes to the reproduction of social inequality, leading to polarizations within society.