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 **Other reading:** Hendriks (2023); Shange (2019)
+===== A bold assertion. What do we make of it? =====
+> [J]eans wearing cannot be assimilated within the implicit assumption of normativity that has been the foundation of anthropology for most of its history and that remains an implicit device even within theories of practice. (Miller 2010, 426)
+==== What should anthropology say about being "ordinary"? ====
+* 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?
 ===== A story from Portland, Oregon =====
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 ===== What would you say? =====
-Go to this Padlet: https:%%//%%sydney.padlet.org/ryanschram/what-would-you-say-lcmkv4zmiyf0me5s
+Go to this Padlet: https://sydney.padlet.org/ryanschram/what-would-you-say-lcmkv4zmiyf0me5s
 ===== Contemporary anthropologists must use binoculars to see society =====
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 ===== A random variable has a bell-shaped distribution =====
-{{Figure%201.%20A%20bell-shaped%20curve%20representing%20the%20distribution%20of%20randomly%20generated%20numbers.| :bell.png}}
+{{:bell.png| Figure 1. A bell-shaped curve representing the distribution of randomly generated numbers.}}
 ==== Height is a random variable across a population ====
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 Social action is not just meaningful, it’s a message. When we appear in public, our appearance sends many messages, some of which is intentional and some which are unintentional.
-                  | **American** | **Auhelawa** |\\
+^ ^ ^ **American** ^ **Auhelawa** ^
-**Ripped jeans** %% %% | Hip, stylish, bohemian %% %% | Poor, rural, simple (//bilibilij//) |\\
+^ **Ripped jeans** %% %% | | Hip, stylish, bohemian %% %% | Poor, rural, simple (//bilibilij//) |
-**Unwashed hair** %% %% | Dirty, unhygienic %% %% | Respectful of father’s matrikin during a time of mourning |
+^ **Unwashed hair** %% %% | | Dirty, unhygienic %% %% | Respectful of father’s matrikin\\  during a time of mourning |
 We can distinguish between signals that we **give** intentionally and those we **give off** unintentionally (Goffman 1973, 2).
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 A: [serious, solemn] Oh… um, excuse me, Your Holiness. I am honored to be in your presence.
-==== Obligatory reference to a classic early-aughts “wireless” ad tauting the company’s great cellular coverage area ====
+==== Obligatory reference to a classic early-aughts “wireless” ad touting the company’s great cellular coverage area ====
-“Jimbo” [Cingular Wireless]. 2006. BBDO. https:%%//%%www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0pL_CsK3Dk.
+“Jimbo” [Cingular Wireless]. 2006. BBDO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0pL_CsK3Dk.
 Cingular has no dropped calls. You don’t have to worry that a long pause means you said something stupid to a future in-law.