Question

Norm Violation Project: (4- 5 pages )

Identify a common social norm and then construct an experiment in which you violate this norm.

Describe the setting you chose, and the norm you chose to violate. Why did you choose to violate this norm? How do you expect that others will react?

? Describe what happened when you violated the norm. What did you do? What did people around you do? What social sanctions resulted from your norm violation? Who created and/or enforced them? How?

? Describe how race, class, and/or gender affect your deviance (others perception of it, your ability to do it, different sanctions that might be brought against different groups or person engaging in the same act).

? Describe which theories best explain the deviance that you have engaged in.

? Discuss your time as a “deviant”. How uncomfortable were you? What normally keeps you in line? How hard is it to break an unspoken rule? How are the unspoken rules enforced?

Typically, to do this assignment well, most students write approximately 5 pages. Your paper may be longer or shorter. I am more concerned about content than page length.

To get you started, here are some norms you might violate: -

- Social Distance Norms

- Conversational Norms

- Gender Norms

- Volume Norms

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