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    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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    The social norm I have decided to break is "do not talk to strangers". I am an inherently shy person so that was especially hard for me. I was lucky enough to have my daughter and mother along to give me courage. This past weekend afforded me a day off work‚ which I was fortunate enough to spend with my mother and grown daughter. A day of shopping and lunch was on the agenda. A trip to Bloomington to the mall was the best place for my norm breaking behavior. As we strolled through the mall

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    Social norms are rules of certain kind of behavior that society uses to evaluate the population and provides normalcy. When it comes to responding to the breaking of social norms people have different ways to cope or react to it. Some reactions can be pleasant‚ some could be horrible or even judgmental. Some people believe breaking a social norm could be needed to help govern or control the society. On the other hand others believe breaking social norms are un-normal and that no one should break

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    Social norms are an essential part of living in a society; they guide us towards appropriate behaviors. Norms are the social behaviors that are expected and acceptable of a group. When you think of a certain behavior‚ if words such as typical‚ usual‚ or standard apply to it‚ then it is most likely a norm. The social norm that I studied for this particular experiment is the norm of paying for something with paper money. Whenever most people pay for items‚ whether it is at a grocery store‚ shopping

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    Social Norm Violation As soon as we are born‚ we begin the process of socialization‚ defined as the life long process of learning to become a member of society. Each society and culture has definite principles‚ expectation and rules. They can either be formal written laws or informal rules created by a culture. These are known as social norms. Social norms are part of the basics of culture‚ which we learn during primary socialization. When social norms are broken in public it typically does not

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    presented to us in our social environments. Think about the things we get from teachers‚ family‚ television‚ movies‚ music‚ and even casual social interaction that influence us to behave in a certain way. Not only in telling us what to buy‚ but telling us how to act. These are the norms we are taught to follow. Norms are social rules which we are taught by society to adhere. Some are laws‚ like killing and stealing‚ and some are just socially regulated. More severe norm violations have more severe

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    Norms are usually the rules and regulations that groups of people live by or standards of behavior. The term "norms" covers an exceptionally wide range of behavior. Sociologist’s defined norms as a set of rules developed by a group of people that specify how they must‚ should‚ may‚ should not‚ and must not behave in various circumstances. Norms are the social rules that control behavior in the community at large. Norms are learned as an individual grows in a given environment. Some norms are classified

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    The social norm that I chose to violate was to go into an elevator and instead of turning around and facing the door upon entering; I had my back to the door and faced the other people in the elevator. In normality a person enters an elevator‚ pushes the button for their desired floor and turns to face the door to avoid eye contact with strangers‚ and prepare to exit the elevator. The reason I choose to violate this particular social norm was because I’ve never seen anyone else do it and I was

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    Social norms are expectations or rules to which people go by day to day. There are certain unwritten rules that outline how a person should behave socially; for instance‚ standing in line or stopping at a stop sign. When a social norm is being broken‚ people tend to act differently to it depending on the degree to which the norm was broken. Some broken norms may be taken it in form of jokes‚ some may be taken negatively and others can lead to serious consequences‚ like going to jail. Tempe maker

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    The Social norm I broke was shaking people’s hands. Yes‚ I know that you are thinking to yourself‚ this is a social norm; you’re not breaking anything. In today’s society‚ people don’t shake each other’s hands instead they come up with some other gesture and when your try to shake their hand‚ they do not know how to do it properly. I was in Union Station for this experiment because I wanted a large sample of the population and for the population to be diverse. My results were interesting‚ the men

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