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They say the job of a sociologist is to make the familiar strange. Well, What's Normal? stands that charge on its head, making the strange familiar. From incest taboos to wartime bravery to obesity to child naming practices, Horwitz demonstrates how nature and nurture dance the tango to produce norms. What's Normal? is both thoroughly comprehensive scholarship and a page turner. A tour de force. --Dalton Conley, Henry Putnam University Professor of Sociology, Princeton University While many acknowledge that the nature-nurture debate is obsolete, we continue to struggle with this tension. Using a wide range of cases, Allan Horwitz addresses this nearly imponderable question by untangling what is part of our biological inheritance, what is our constructed convention, and what happens when nature and nurture encounter the complexities of modern life. --Bernice Pescosolido, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Indiana University

They say the job of a sociologist is to make the familiar strange. Well, What's Normal? stands that charge on its head, making the strange familiar. From incest taboos to wartime bravery to obesity to child naming practices, Horwitz demonstrates how nature and nurture dance the tango to produce norms. What's Normal? is both thoroughly comprehensive scholarship and a page turner. A tour de force. --Dalton Conley, Henry Putnam University Professor of Sociology, Princeton University While many acknowledge that the nature-nurture debate is obsolete, we continue to struggle with this tension. Using a wide range of cases, Allan Horwitz addresses this nearly imponderable question by untangling what is part of our biological inheritance, what is our constructed convention, and what happens when nature and nurture encounter the complexities of modern life. --Bernice Pescosolido, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Indiana University

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Allan V. Horwitz is Board of Governors Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University and co-author of All We Have to Fear and The Loss of Sadness.

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