For this week’s discussion I decided to violate a norm at work. I am a tutor and I usually tutor about 4-5 students in a classroom. When I was getting hired‚ I was told that as a tutor I should always be on time‚ dress in business casual clothes and be professional. This week I decided to go into to work in jeans‚ a T-shirt‚ and flip-flops. I walked in to work like any other day and just started walking toward my classroom. From my peripheral vision‚ I could see my boss staring at me from head
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While social norms bind us‚ we bind others to our own ideals. In psychology‚ this concept is referred to as projection. We only know what we know‚ and like to think that others are the same. It’s not a bad thing‚ since we need to find similarities in each other due to being a social species. Of course‚ there are times when we overstep the line and find ourselves believing another is exactly like us‚ instead of respecting their individuality. Though it’s innately human nature to want to make marks
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I experimented with breaking social norms by nursing my baby in a public area without covering myself‚ I ate dinner with my family and only used my hands‚ no utensils and my last violation was getting on an elevator with only one other person and I pushed all of the buttons for all floors. The reactions were not surprising‚ some were quite comical‚ but I found that the reactions to me nursing my son caused me to feel a lot of anger towards some people. It was an enlightening experience to see how
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Social Norm Project Sweater Backwards Behavior: Walk around with my sweater backwards. For this project I plan to walk with my sweater on backwards around parks‚ family‚ friends‚ and random people I see in stores. I also plan to observe and record their reactions. I think if I walk around with my sweater backward a lot of people will notice and give weird looks or laugh because it is out of the ordinary. Experiment: Trial 1- I went to nob hill with my Oregon sweater on backwards. Some
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The social norm I decided on was to stare at someone for a couple minutes‚ or longer depending how long it took for the other to be aware that they were being watched. I did the assignment in a cashier’s line at Wal-Mart to a woman who looked like she was in her early 50’s. The way I stared‚ to be a bit more descriptive‚ seemed like I was nonchalant or impolite depending on how you viewed the situation. Violating this social norm was awkward and it felt like I was creeping on that lady. The reason
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people react to my violating a cultural behavior norm? Specifically‚ I want to know how people will react to me talking to myself while riding the train. I propose that when I violate a social behavior norm by talking to myself on the train‚ people will respond tome in ways that indicate to me that my behavior is deviant. People will probably look at me strange‚ laugh at me‚ make fun of me‚ and probably more embarrassing things. I performed my norm violation on the CTA Orange Line Train around 3:30pm
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as possible determinants of subjects’ responses; (c) situational factors‚ which may be denned as anything specific to the interaction between subject and experimenter at the time of the experiment‚ such as the relationship between the two‚ appearance of the laboratory‚ or the experimenter’s prior experience in conducting psychological research; and (d) expectancy effects‚ which refer to the effects of the experimenters’ expectations on the outcome of the experiment. Each of these sources
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In our society‚ there are many social norms we are expected to abide by. These unwritten rules and standards of behavior often go unnoticed‚ leaving society to take them for granted. We only become truly aware of the norms of society when they are actually violated. When a violation occurs‚ those who continue to conform may respond with positive or negative sanctions‚ such as humor‚ alarm‚ irritation‚ fear‚ or a wide variety of emotions. Our society also relies on language as its major bases for
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example‚ a person with an IQ that is above or below the average IQ of society could be considered abnormal. A person with a higher IQ wouldn’t necessarily be considered abnormal‚ but they would be highly regarded for their intelligence. Violating social norms could be classified as abnormal if it violates what is accepted or expected in society. An example of violating what is normal could be a person who is wearing their clothes backwards. It is not necessarily against the law‚ but more unacceptable
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were not wearing coats. The concept of societal norms is crazy for me to grasp my mind around. The fact that what happens in my hometown can be so different than the things that happen in a different community is mind boggling. Why is something so different in my town than in a town just an hour north of me? One of the intriguing parts about this concept is that there must be a trigger the trends. There are endless questions about societal norms‚ some of which are so complex to understand that
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