A Experiment On Breaching Experiment

The second part of my breaching experiment made me think if it was a real life scenario, and if my phone rang, whether I could trust someone to tell me. Nevertheless the person who informed me that my phone was ringing was a friend I met last year, which made me think of what would have happened if he were not in the room.

My mother has always told me that certain things should not be done in public. Social norms are opinions and beliefs that are shared amongst a group. Throughout our lives our parents tell us things that aren’t socially acceptable, and that there are consequences for those actions. Those that don’t act in ways that are socially acceptable are isolated from society. Norms help to guide the general public by reinforcing it with a punishment in waiting.

Norms are rules of conduct that specify appropriate behavior in a given range of social situations. A norm either prescribes a given type of behavior or forbids it. Norms represent the dos and don’ts of society. These social norms are the social rules that lead us to conform, even though these rules aren’t always defined. Not knowing these social norms can be distressing so we conform only based on what people perceive as being the norm. In the movie The Breakfast Club, the five students of high school stereotypes of a nerd, princess, jock, criminal, and loner, have been kept apart because of social norms. Due to the fact that they were all brought together in Saturday detention, they have to look past their stereotypes and overcome these social norms. For example there is a scene where John, or the criminal, questions what the point or value is of joining clubs. When he does this he challenges social norms that the other students care about. Not only that but he is conforming to his individual norms of being rebellious and to be hated. People like this are the type to live on the streets or in trailer parks. These types of teenagers are likely to have drug addicted, alcoholic, and abusive parents, and these are the teenagers that seem to be pre-determined to become just as bad as they’re parents are…if not worst. John, and others like him tend to be disliked, disrespected and unfortunately treated unfairly by both adults and they’re peers. In the end though John Bender is essential in the movie because he makes the other kids in detention question who they think they are in society, and who they really are. This is when a norm becomes a part of their individual personality, thus making them conform to society. In the end it is revealed that they are all the same because they all have the same norms of each other and the same values of a

According to this theory, people follow social norms because of their attachment to others. People care about others’ perceptions of them, so they are likely to conform to social expectations (Andersen et al., 2016). In the library, people conform to the social rule of keeping quiet because they know that others are expecting them to be. The developer of social control theory, Travis Hirschi, would probably view people’s behavior in the library as a result of their attachment to social norms. Even if people usually would say hello to each other in different settings, the expectations of people in the library stop them from participating in deviant behavior. If Hirschi were to see me performing my norm violation, he would most likely view my deviant behavior as a result of my weakened attachment to social

During the social norm violation experiment, my partner and I found that by violating simple social norms people can react either calmly or highly confused. The social norm we chose to violate was asking for someone else’s seat in class and at lunch. My partner and I believed that most of the participants would react either confused or just give up their seat to be nice. To follow through with the experiment, my partner went up to ten different students while either in lunch or in class and politely asked to switch seats. I observed the whole situation, I watched the difference in each person’s body language, tone, attitude, and their answer. Most of the time, whenever my partner asked a student for their seat, they looked at her confused at

I attend Pattonville High School, which is a public school that has many different norms for many different types of people. One norm is that all the kids with good grades will rush to class, for no reason, they just do it. A different norm is that all the people that have girlfriends always walk them to class, even if they get a tardy, you never let them walk alone. A different norm involves the surroundings of the school. There is a Seven-Eleven less than half a mile away from the school, and whenever you have a game, or meet you walk up their buy food, or if you didn’t bring any money you go up and try to smooch off of people. Another norm is that during your sports’ season you sit with everyone on your team, even if its only you as a freshmen

The social norm that I broke was related to pushing a grocery store. When someone goes shopping, they push the cart from the wider side and the side with a “handle.” I decided that I would push the cart from the other end, or the narrower end. People automatically grab a cart by the wider side or they grab the cart by the narrow side and pull it behind them. I thought this would be an interesting thing that I could do that would break the norm of grocery shopping.

Finding a norm to break was pretty hard, but once I did I realized the norm itself was also a little strange. People ride the elevator because they wish to get to their destination in the building quicker than they would walking up and down the stairs. At Berkeley City College there are only five floors; riding the elevator is not an absolutely necessary thing. My school is a pretty diverse campus, although I rarely see the diverse people in the same classes I choose for myself. I see people of all age ranges on a daily basis, some friendlier than others. I decided to do this violation throughout the school week(s) at BCC since I couldn’t test this theory out at Laney College. I chose to test how would people react to me riding the elevator incorrectly or if they would have a reaction at all; doing so I would compare this act to W.E.B Du Bois 's theory of double consciousness.

An ordinary but frequent social psychological concept is racism, which I recently had the opportunity to witness while I was on my way home. Specifically, I was waiting at the bus station and a Chinese guy was sitting next to me while he was waiting for his bus too. At that time, a middle-aged woman approached the Chinese boy shouting and telling him to leave from her country because native residents do not have enough space. Of course, many people around got annoyed with her and explained her that this behaviour towards the young man was definitely inappropriate. The particular incident could be considered as a demonstration of the ‘breaching experiment’ due to the fact that it examines and portrays an unanticipated violation of the normally

Walking, with my company, up to the EFY orientation. In two lines, boys in one and the girls in the other. While my women’s counselor, Jennifer, walked in front, and the men’s counselor, Adam (a.k.a. Spud), walked in back. In front of the line, I stood by a boy named Kaden. While everyone talked behind us, we were the only ones silent. “So, why don’t you introduce yourselves,” said Jennifer, looking back at us. That was all it took to get the conversation going. All the sudden we were talking about everything and anything. Even Jennifer hopped into the conversation after a bit. We talked about where we were from, what we like, past travels, school, and more.

At a very early age, children learn about social norms to help them become proper citizens in society. Examples of some social norms that students learn are: “do not yell in the library,” “do not speak unless spoken to,” “do not talk to strangers,” and “close the door when you use the restroom.” As you grow older, these rules become unspoken because everyone knows how to act like a proper individual in society. The textbook definition of a social norm is something that is a rule of behavior that society accepts. (Bicchieri) Since everyone knows these unsaid rules of society, what would happen when someone decides not to follow these rules? What would people think and react? In this paper, I discuss my violation of the social norm “don’t talk to strangers” and discuss what I learned from this experiment.

In chapter eight we learned about social influences and a part I found appealing was the section on the power of social norms, which is the “unspoken but shared rules of conduct in a formal or informal group.” Basically, it means that the social world can impact our lives by peer pressuring us into acting out in a behavior that is out of our character. However, falling into that group norm would be a characteristic of conformity. An example would be someone that is peer pressured into taking drugs, but after time becomes adapted to that behavior and continues to

“Social influence is the process by which the actions of an individual or group affect the behavior of others” (Feldman 495). These influences are strongly experienced by members in the group. Every group is unique and is mostly guided by a particular norm and behavior. An individual in a group passively or actively allows himself to be influenced by the group just to have a sense of belongingness. In the bid to prevent being excluded or rejected from a group, some individuals overtly adhere to the norms of the group. “Thus, people conform to meet the expectations of the group” (Feldman 495).

Norms are essentially unspoken rules of conduct given by society. These vary and evolve not only through time but also vary from one age group to another and between social classes and social groups. (Becker) It is important to understand how norms dictate our society because breaking any norms can lead to a negative sanctions Sanctions are punishments or rewards one receive when you either abide by a norm or violate it. (Carl, 54) Different types of norms call for different level of sanctions. There are three different types or levels of norms: folkways, mores, and taboos. Folkways are informal norms when violate have lax consequence. An example is picking your nose in class. While it seen as un-hygienic, the sanction for this violation is less severe. The next level of norm is mores. Mores have a much greater value attached to it. Mores distinguish the difference between right and wrong, while folkways draw a line

His classmate gave him a puzzled look with a hint of frustration. Once class was dismissed, the boy from earlier formally introduced himself and made a request: