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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 =====