Breaching Experiment: Peep into a Stranger’s Phone Jia Lu Introduction A folkway has three characteristics. First‚ it is a rule of behavior—what is acceptable by the society‚ what is not. Second‚ the rule is loosely enforced‚ and breaching does not entail serious repercussions. A person can be arrested if he breaks the law‚ for instance; but only eyeballed or laughed at if he breaches a folkway. Third‚ a folkway is rooted in social and cultural context. In most areas of China‚ for example‚ eating
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What is personal space? Personal space was an idea first developed by German born Swedish psychologist David Katz in 1937. It is very often describes as an “emotionally charged bubble of space which surrounds each individual” or alternately “Personal space is the region surrounding a person which they regard as psychologically theirs. Most people value their personal space and feel discomfort‚ anger‚ or anxiety when their personal space is encroached.” On the other hand‚ some research suggests
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a profit. Most have this information or the citizens that live in a country like Canada and the United States. Corporates companies break the law and the government specially the prime minster turn a blind eye. Companies can big huge profit and breaching your privacy therefore increase the economy of the country. For example the UnitedHealth made huge profits of taking data from people without permission UnitedHealth made billions. UnitedHealth got different types of information from its customer
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Stephanie Winkler Self & Society Reaction Paper 1: Breaching Exercise Due 2/12/15 As a sociology student I have some experience in the field of messing with social norms. When assigned to create a breaching exercise situation I can say I felt comfortable as opposed to the first time I was instructed to break a norm. Breaching experiments obtain to study people’s responses to disruptions of generally conventional social rules or norms. I will admit I had a few weird ideas that I have always been
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Personal Space Most social situations North Americans require a comfort zone of six to eight square feet per person‚ and any violation of that buffer can trigger a reaction (Bowen). “People use avoidance responses‚” says Robert Sommer‚ a psychologist at the University of California-Davis and author of the book Personal Space (qtd. in Bowen). But where does the standard of personal space come from? According to Sommer‚ “a comfort distance for conversation varies from culture to culture
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BREACHING A CONTRACT First What is a Contract? A Contract is defined as a binding agreement between two or more persons or parties; Especially; One legally enforceable. When signing a contract the person signing signs the contract‚ to render services for a certain amount of time or for a certain amount of material‚ which is labeled a term in the agreement. In every contract there are certain duties and rules that are to be followed and obeyed. When disobeyed or rules are broken then that leads
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Personal Space A personal space is a place where one can go to be alone‚ it is a place that one knows like the back of their hand‚ and it is a place where many memories are made‚ some are trivial‚ some are heartfelt. A personal space is defined as “The physical space immediately surrounding someone‚ into which any encroachment feels threatening to or uncomfortable for them.” (dictionary.com) My personal space is my car. It is a very intimate‚ meaningful space in which I have made many fond memories
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physical spaces around them. It takes into account body spacing and postures as involuntary reactions. The physical distance between two people can be linked to the relationship they share‚ personal or social. There are four proxemic distances: intimate‚ personal‚ social‚ and public distances. Intimate distances can range from actually touching to six through eighteen inches. The individuals are so close together that it is not considered proper for strangers in public. Your personal space allows you
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Personal space and the impact of eye contant For the view point of the psychologists‚ “personal space” is the important term. The “personal space” is reflect that each of the different relationship for person‚ easy to let psychologists know the phenomenon of different people’s relationship and let them research more detail about this invisible communication. Moreover‚ that is also a benefit on other types of professional jobs such as doctor‚ lawyers‚ and teacher. For example‚ teacher can
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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 of possible artifact has received considerable attention‚ and documentation of the
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