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-* The most important paradigms in anthropology assume on some level that social order has a normative aspect, and that social actors operate in relation to rules and rule-like ideas. Do we agree?
+==== What should anthropology say about being "ordinary"? ====
-* If Miller's jeans-wearers are representative of social actors in general, then people seem to be oriented toward being "ordinary," and that presumes a standard or model of "normal." What does the presence of that standard mean for a theory of society?
+* The most important paradigms in anthropology assume on some level that social order has a normative aspect, and that social actors operate in relation to rules and rule-like ideas. Do we agree?
+* If Miller's jeans-wearers are representative of social actors in general, then people seem to be oriented toward being "ordinary," and that presumes a standard or model of "normal." What does the presence of that standard mean for a theory of society?
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 ===== How do you define normal? =====
-  * The people in the Portland coffeshop were saying themselves “We’re normal.”
+  * The people in the Portland coffeshop were saying to themselves “We’re normal.”
   * Orokaiva people are normal human beings because they aren’t like //ejeba// people, //ol waitman//.
   * Workers at Signature Fashions think of themselves as middle-income people, neither rich nor poor.