Changing Societal Norm

Littering is nothing but waste that is being disposed improperly. If you take a look around you will realize that

Have you ever thought about what your community would look like without litter? If so, it may take a while to find out. One person throwing something on the ground may not think much of it, however, when that trash finds other trash, they begin to build up and make big piles of junk. For example, I am sure people never thought that if they littered, their trash would end up in the pacific garbage patch. Believe it or not, no one thinks that until you look at the pacific garbage patch and see how disgusting it looks just because people were to lazy to throw their trash away. To make matters worse, littering has become very common, which should be stopped because in most cases, trash is not disposed of properly,

I brainstormed and contemplated about what social norm I should break in order to achieve this assignment. I fathom the idea that some social norms and expectations would be quite difficult to accomplish. Surprisingly, without much thought I knew exactly what norm I wanted to break. I decided to break the well known concept that each gender must go to the restroom in their designated restroom area. I planned on starting the assignment by choosing a few public restrooms in which I would enter the men’s restroom. That particular behavior breaks a social norm because with most public restrooms; genders are separated by signs or names. Thus, there should be no reason why men or women end up going into the same restroom. I personally believe that

To break the social norm, I went trick or treating in the mall, wearing a Halloween costume. I broke the social norm by not trick or treating on Halloween. The social norm is to trick or treat on Halloween. To break this norm, I went to the mall and went trick or treating in three stores. I said “trick or treat” to any customer and worker who was in the store as well as wore a Wonder Women costume. At the mall, people walk around, look in stores, and buy clothes or any kind of merchandise. The typical norms at the mall are that when you see a person or an employee in a store, you say “Hello”, “Good Morning”, “Good Afternoon”, or “Good Evening”. Trick or treating and wearing a costume not on Halloween and at the mall is considered to be deviant.

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World explores the concept of change in societal norms, examining whether it is a result of definitive morality, or simply relevancy. Written in 1931, the novel has a backdrop of a rapidly changing society, being recorded following the Roaring Twenties and the start of American Consumerism. This period was a time of social innovation, old values tossed out for being too sentimental and chivalrous. The new era would hold a contemporary way of life, afar from the prudeness of the past. Huxley delves into these ideas throughout the novel, especially in Chapter 17 which is closing in on the end. There lies the debate of morals and ideals between one of the leading protagonists, John and the antagonist, Mustapha Mond.

Within the last few weeks I decided to take part and violate a social norm. Recently I decided to switch out the hard drive in my iMac so the performance would improve on it. I invited my close friend over to keep my company and if he wanted to help he could. He is not too computer savvy as I am, which lead to numerous questions. As he opened the flood gate and started firing questions at me I start to stand close to him. After his third question I moved from one spot and move a lot closer to him. I not sure how far we were from each other, but I started to feel uncomfortable myself as I am sure he was wondering what in the world was going on. He reacted by leaning backwards in the opposite direction and then just flat out told me that I was

I will violate a social norm of attire by wearing formal attire to school, a place where casual clothing is worn. I will violate the norm by wearing a blouse, a big fancy skirt and heels to school. The clothes I will wear will be different from my usual attire. The norm acts as a mechanism of social control, because it will be unpredictable and unexpected. In my school people typically wear clothing like jeans, leggings and casual dresses so I will be going against social norms. Normally people do not wear the clothing that I will be wearing.

As one begins to integrate into society, many roles and expectations are placed upon one. Such expectations often restrict one’s path towards happiness, in the end causing resentment and even unwillingness to live. In the novel The Handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood, and Wreck-it Ralph written by Jennifer Lee and Phil Johnston, the characters are unhappy due to the roles forced upon them. At the beginning of both texts the protagonists are presented with society pushing them into strict roles which they must fulfill, which in turn causes them to be dissatisfied and even appalled with aspects of their lives. Eventually, they take action and work towards breaking society's expectations of them. Ultimately, both of them achieve self contentment. Thus, in order to achieve happiness with oneself, society’s expectations must be broken.

I was feeling a little more confident so I immediately stood about two-and-a-half feet away from him. He glanced at me at first, but did not say anything. Another customer and asked, “Do you mind if I just reach across you to grab that?” It was clear that the customer assumed we were together. When the other customer walked away, the subject stepped about a foot away from me. I casually stepped closer to him, as if I were following him. He then asked me, “Did you need to get over here?” I replied, “No, I’m OK” and continued to browse the section. He seemed very intimidated by my presence, though he had a very strong outward appearance, and spoke with firm, assertive tone. He finally grabbed his item, and then gave me a quick head nod and grimace goodbye. I followed him to the checkout line. When we approached the line, I was standing less than two feet behind him. He looked back and said, “It’s OK, you can go ahead of me.” As soon as I stepped in front, he moved approximately 4 feet away from me.

Littering and pollution is everywhere. It hurts the environment about as much as it hurts us. Usually the trash and sewage that we humans let out eventually heads into the ocean, lakes, rivers, and into the food that we eat. The article, “Ocean Pollution is a Global Threat”, explains why litter is dangerous for sea animals themselves, “Plastic garbage, which decomposes very slowly, is often mistaken for food by marine animals”. Some of the fish and sea animals that we eat may sometimes confuse trash with food and are contaminated by dangerous chemicals. The contaminated fish later end up on our plates and later in our stomach. There are ways of preventing this though. Setting up advertisements on television and on billboards is a good way of getting the message out to people. Everyone

It may seem harmless and innocent, but littering is an unhealthy habit people of all ages in each country do every day. Littering is a second nature to some people; after doing it for so long and often, they do not realize they do it. As more and more people continue to litter, environments, animals, and humans are being harmed by people’s carless actions. Americans, as well as all humans, need to be more aware of how hazardous and costly littering is to the world and the creatures living in it. Littering shows lack of respect for the world, and needs to be prevented in order for future generations to live in a clean and healthy environment.

In a matter of time, women will eventually attain the same status as men in terms of social deviance and criminality. It can be broken down into positive and negative context based on society and people's perception. For example, as the world becomes progressive women will try to retain more power or will seek more power. But it will make them to violate social norms which will label women as criminal. History shows us that time to time our powerful women figure did violet laws in their timeperiod to prove a point. For example one hand Margaret Sanger was seen as a criminal during her time since she initatited the idea of birth control. Other hand there was Razor gang leader Matilda Devine from Austrilia who had over 79 convictions. She begin

The societal norm that I selected is that human actions can and do shape the global climate. As well, that it is our environmental behaviors in the end that either reduce or contribute to global climate change today. The way that I expressed my norm was demonstrating how the environment in Arctic is supposed to look like vrs how it's going to like. The symbols that I used to demonstrate my idea was to find magazine pictures that showed global climate change. So, I have my background as the Arctic but I also have a grass field to demonstrate the ice sheets melting and to exaggerate the idea that the Arctic will soon become a grassland. I also added penguins because I wanted to show how our decisions will not only impact our environment but also

Learning is often thought of as the main purpose of school, however school’s impact on children’s behaviour is remarkably significant to their development. Afterall, school provides students with the necessary skills to be successful adults and citizens. One of these skills, is learning how to respect others. In contrast, Kevin does not conform to this social norm. For instance, his english teacher states; “I’ve noticed that he asks challenging questions merely to catch me out - to humiliate me in front of the class. In fact, he knows the answer before hand”(Shriver, 2003, p. 334). Unlike most students when asking a question, Kevin is not unclear of the meaning or curious about the topic. His single goal is to undermine authority and to mock

Littering is one of the biggest environmental issues we face today. Littering affects us all, from humans to animals and our surroundings. The careless act of littering from a simple piece of plastic thrown on the ground can clog storm drains or that piece of plastic may go straight to the ocean and harm wildlife. Littering is a health hazard which causes harmful bacteria and germs. Removing litter from the environment costs everyone money. Littering is the most important environmental issue our nation is facing because it is done so easily and carelessly. People do not realize how much we spend on cleaning litter every year or how it affects us all. The practice has become second nature, we have avoided to educate ourselves on how this affects us in the long run. Littering needs to be minimized or if possible, completely stopped if we could help it because we are doing more harm to the earth.