What's the difference between mainstream and norm?

Mainstream


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's the demented flipside of David Guetta bringing Euro house into the mainstream.
  • (2) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
  • (3) Plays like The Workhouse Donkey (1963) and Armstrong's Last Goodnight (1964) were staged in major theatres, but as the decade progressed so his identification with the increasingly radical climate of the times began to lead away from the mainstream theatre.
  • (4) Before the offer for the jungle came in she was meant to be presenting the Plus Size Awards this week, an event supporting plus-size people who are doing amazing things but are overlooked by the mainstream.
  • (5) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
  • (6) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
  • (7) A lfred Ekpenyong knows first hand how tough it can be to find a secure foothold in mainstream society after leaving prison.
  • (8) While some might deride the deliberate mainstream branding and design, saying it panders to convention, this is exactly what Hannah feels her community needs.
  • (9) In sharp contrast, the coverage provided by the various mainstream news channels and newspapers not only seems – with some exceptions – unresponsive and stilted, but often non-existent.
  • (10) Pointing out that “the army has its own fortune teller”, he sounds less than happy at the state of affairs: “The country is run by superstition.” Weerasethakul is in a relatively fortunate position, in that his arcane films are not exactly populist and don’t depend on the mainstream Thai film industry for funding, but he has become cast as a significant voice of dissent in a difficult time .
  • (11) Gola, who gave his first stand-up turn in 2001, has watched comedy in South Africa go mainstream.
  • (12) White House plan to hire more border agents raises vetting fear, ex-senior official says Read more “But the fact is when the world changed, you have to change too, and so I do think there are amazing new opportunities now because he’s bringing nationalism to the fore, he’s bringing it into the mainstream, he’s asking these existential questions like: are we a nation?
  • (13) "Whether Jain or Sikh or Buddhist or Sufi or Zoroastrian or Jewish or Muslim or Baptist or Hindu or Catholic or Baha'i or Animist or any other mainstream or minor religion or movement, we are taught as a tolerant society to accept a diversity of ideologies.
  • (14) The Russian channel has the specific mission to counter the narrative of the so-called “mainstream media” and often does not even attempt balanced coverage of global events.
  • (15) And we know enough about the preventive impact of some services, such as intermediate care and re-ablement, that they should be included in mainstream commissioning plans everywhere.
  • (16) Indeed, mainstream economics is a pitifully thin distillation of historical wisdom on the topics that it addresses.
  • (17) The mainstream argument has moved on to the politics and economics.
  • (18) Once seen as the preserve of the tech-savvy, early adopters and gamers, adblocking has now moved into the mainstream,” said Bill Fisher, senior analyst at eMarketer.
  • (19) Everything they’re buying would have been thrown out by a mainstream supermarket.
  • (20) The 70-year-old describes a life of comfortable detachment from mainstream society, but with long periods in which he and his 74-year-old wife, Shin-yeol, are at the mercy of the elements.

Norm


Definition:

  • (a.) A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type.
  • (a.) A typical, structural unit; a type.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The norms are reported as "Scaled Score Equivalents of Raw Scores" for each age group and as "IQ Equivalents of Sums of Scaled Scores."
  • (2) Specifically, the study investigated the cross-cultural utility of the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) by examining scores of community and patient samples of Korean immigrants and comparing them with norms for Americans and for Koreans living in Korea.
  • (3) The Metro-Manila Developmental Screening Test (MMDST) is a Philippine version of the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) for which norms were developed in 1980 on 6006 Filipino children.
  • (4) Both the indirect and direct measures of attitude and social norm explained a significant amount of the variance in intention and BSE frequency.
  • (5) Examples include growth trajectories, morphological shapes, and norms of reaction.
  • (6) This study was designed to assess whether the influences of affect, utility, norm, and habit on intention to seek care promptly for a breast cancer symptom were conditional upon race.
  • (7) Following the cognitive orientation theory, we hypothesized that beliefs concerning goals, norms, oneself, and general beliefs would predict the extent of improvement following acupuncture.
  • (8) On this planet, extinction is the norm – of the 4 billion species ever thought to have evolved, 99% have become extinct.
  • (9) Normative ranges of drinking converged from September to April, suggesting the emerging norms were the product of social experience with classmates.
  • (10) In 30 patients, the structure and function of the reproductive organs was within age norm.
  • (11) On the basis of detected wide species variety of microorganisms potentially dominating by their biotope numerical limits of the norm were determined only for the microbial groups of the accompanying microflora.
  • (12) Overall, both groups scored higher than the norm and showed a more optimal personality development than has been observed in earlier studies of this kind.
  • (13) Its average values are significantly lower up to the 6th month post treatment discontinuation and closrm, with only 13 above the norm.
  • (14) The biological tolerability was excellent without any variation of the biological norm values (47 parameters).
  • (15) Referencing these dismal truths on the website Race Files , Soya Jung criticised Chua and Rubenfeld for "buying into exceptionalist arguments to explain disparities means endorsing a dehumanising system of racialised norms".
  • (16) An interactive effect between drug testing and subjective norms on attitudes toward a company was also significant.
  • (17) Gilmore said she can understand that antipathy towards teenage pregnancy in many countries, but said traditional belief systems were not a reason to hold on to a “toxic norm”.
  • (18) In the athletic population the maximal aerobic power increased across ages 10 to 14, whereas, the values for the less active norms decreased with age.
  • (19) This, in turn, would provide the cover to push through aspects of the Trump agenda that require a further suspension of core democratic norms – such as his pledge to deny entry to all Muslims (not only those from selected countries), his Twitter threat to bring in “the feds” to quell street violence in Chicago, or his obvious desire to place restrictions on the press.
  • (20) Prolonged breast feeding should be encouraged, child health improved, and research conducted on the traditions, norms, customs, and taboos of target populations.