Youll need to choose one informal norm to violate [do NOT break a law, do not disrupt other professors classes, do not dramatize any racial or sexually violent scenarios (e.g. sexual assault, sexual/racial harassment)] in a public area. To complete the assignment, you will need to break the SAME informal norm three (3) times but with different groups or at different times of day or in different location
Paint me a picture of where and how you broke your norm (be sure to use chapter vocab). Im curious to know how did the people who saw your break a norm respond to you, how did they look at you, did you receive any looks or did someone say something to you? If you got looks or someone said something, write it down and tell me about it. Also, tell me how you felt when you broke your norm, did you feel awkward, anxious, embarrassed if so write it down and tell me about it.
Basically just make it up anything the professor isnt strict on essays he even gives an outline here it is
- Statement of the Problem (include lots of vocab here: i.e. did you violate a folkway, informal, prescriptive norm?)
- Define the norm you will violate.
- Describe briefly how this norm acts as a mechanism of social control.
- Describe what you will do to violate the norm.
- Hypothesis
- Describe the range of possible reactions others will have to the violation of this norm.
- What do you predict the major reaction will be?
- Describe the setting
- Physicalwhere is the norm violation taking place?
- SocialHow many and what types of persons are observing?
- Describe the incidenttell what happened.
- Summary and Interpretation
- How did you feel as you were violating the norm?
- Why did you feel the way you did?
- Did people react the way you expected? Explain.
- Did you encounter any difficulties in carrying out your assignment?
- What, if anything, did you learn about how norms exercise social control?
- Any other pertinent observations.
Social norm examples
- WALK ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE SIDEWALK
- HAVE A ANIMATED CONVERSATION WITH YOURSELF IN PUBLIC
- LOOK UP ALL THE TIME
- SAY HELLO TO EVERYONE
- WHEN PEOPLE ASK YOU HOW YOU ARE DOING, TELL THEM ABOUT YOUR WHOLE DAY
- WEAR YOUR CLOTHES BACKWARDS
- DONT TAKE YOUR HAT, COAT, & GLOVES OFF, EVEN INSIDE.
- VIOLATE PEOPLES PERSONAL SPACE
- WHISPER TO WHEN YOU TALK
- YELL WHEN YOU TALK
- ASK STRANGERS IF YOU CAN CUT IN LINE. IF THEY ASK WHY YOU NEED TO, THEN SAY YOU DONT REALLY FEEL LIKE WAITING FOR VERY LONG.
- AT YOUR PARENTS HOME ASK FOR PERMISSION TO DO EVERYTHING (GET A DRINK, USE THE BATHROOM, WATCH TV, ETC)