Social Norms Essay

Personally, I found my behavior to be acceptable, as it pertained to myself and did not directly harm those with whom I associated, and promoted an overall positive experience of meeting new people. Despite outside responses, my internal responses remained predominantly unchanged. When specific negative social sanctions were directed my way, specifically in the form of slight frowns or disapproving looks meant to restore social order by condemning my behavior, I simply carried on with what I was doing, refusing to break from my demonstration of deviant behavior and acknowledging their negative responses. I would acknowledge certain informal sanctions at times, specifically if they were verbal comments or particularly vehement facial expressions, in the form of making eye contact, smiling directly at them, and then continuing to eat or talk to other friends who had stopped by to chat and reinforce my behavior with positive sanctions in the form of compliments. Therefore, as most social sanction were unofficial, my responses were predominantly nonverbal, especially toward negative social sanctions. Positive social sanctions were equivalently expressed via verbal and nonverbal communication, thereby garnering higher verbal responses from myself in the form of thanks or continued conversation regarding other social and educational topics (ie: weekend experiences or course work). Observing and responding to these social sanction regarding

The first reason why it is difficult for me to handle open-mouth chewing is because doing so is impolite. One does not have to be an etiquette expert to know that chewing with the mouth closed is proper. Yet, whether you find yourself in restaurants, cafeterias, or other public or private settings, people can often be found chewing with their mouths open or talking with a mouthful of food. Contrary to

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

There are different types of social norms that are constantly being broken, such as not saying “excuse me” after burping, not holding the door for the person right behind you, or not saying “thank you” for every gesture that is being made to you. However, there is one specific social norm that I have violated that always makes others wonder why I  don’t follow the rules.

Society expects everyone to act a curtain way in their everyday lives. That is called folkways which are considered to be an everyday norm behavior; typically it is people who have kept their traditions going from past centuries. Another reason why people also behave certain ways could be because of their values and their beliefs. But not everyone accepts people 's beliefs and values. For example, breast feeding is one of the biggest controversy topics I see today throughout social media. People argue that breast feeding should not be done in public while others disagree especially woman. Woman argue that it is a part of nature and it must be done whenever their child needs of it. Therefore, my first social observation, I witnessed a young woman, in her mid-twenties) breast feeding her baby girl during a mass celebration. I go to San Clemente Catholic Church every Sunday. Ever since the norm violation assignment was assigned I have realized that even though I am in a holy church there is a lot of norm violations happening. There was

A social norm is expected rules that govern behaviors in today’s society and the expectation of what is appropriate or acceptable. I personally believe if my currently generation does not practice or acknowledge social norms, we most likely would not pass them on to the next generation. Over time “Behavior is largely influenced by our social roles, norms, and scripts. In order to know how to act in a given situation, we have shared cultural knowledge of how to behave depending on our role in society. Social norms dictate the behavior that is appropriate or inappropriate for each role” (Bell, 13.3). When members of a society disobey social norms or go against them they might receive odd looks or comments because they do not fit in with typical

One of my biggest pet peeves is when someone talks/chews/drinks with their mouth open. Not only does it make for a disgusting sight, but also an unappealing chomping sound. That is why I believe rule number 98, “Drink not nor talk with your mouth full”, in the The Rules of Civility & Behavior in Company and Conservation is very valuable today. Drinking with one's mouth full is very graphic, and can leave nasty substances in or on the rim of the glass; which is not a sight that people need to see. However, talking with one's mouth full is not only, disgusting, but very disrespectful. When one talks with a mouth full of food, things are bound to come out of their mouth that are chewed, and mushy. The last thing that one wants at a family dinner

When people chew their gum and smack it, it reminds me of when people chew with their mouths open. People who chew with their mouths open are also on my pet peeve list right next to people who smack their gum. When someone smacks their gum, the gum makes a loud noise and so does the person’s mouth. It drives me absolutely crazy. The way most people smack their gum with their jaws wide open makes me feel as though they’re in pain which causes me to cringe. If everyone in this world chewed their gum quietly with their mouths closed, I wouldn’t have to stand as far away from people smacking their gum which would help me get to know more people. For now however, I just have to walk away from people smacking their gum and calm myself

For twelve years, I never felt comfortable to show my teeth when smiling. Prolonged thumb sucking resulted in an open bite, which lead to my closed smile. I was picked on by my cousins at a young age about my unflattering smile and eventually started to believe that my smile was indeed as ugly as their facial expressions were when I smiled.

Nothing is more aggravating than when you're trying to concentrate in class for once, and some cow is smacking like no tomorrow that sits next to you is about to give you high frequency hearing loss; thank God I know sign language. It's the most annoying, disgusting, and most aggravating sound anyone can ever make. How can someone have the audacity to put a person through so much torture? Chewing gum with your mouth open is one of the rudest things a person could do.

The most prominent pet peeve that I had this year was people chewing with their mouths open. I dislike when people do this because the sound annoys and grosses me out. I know a lot of people that do, and that might be telling that I should stop paying such close attention to how people are eating. So, instead of letting this bother me, I’m going to

Chewing with your mouth open is first, gross, and second loud and obnoxious. Chewing with your mouth open causes food to fly out and smacking to occur. Smacking is annoying because it’s just mouth noise and it makes people go crazy, unless you’re the person doing it. People who chew with their mouth open should be sent to a new class made just for people who do not understand the concept of chewing with their mouth closed.

The most annoying thing in the world to me is when people chew food with their mouth open. Open-mouth chewing makes me go insane! I have self-diagnosed myself and I have misophonia. Misophonia is when people obtain a gut wrenching rage when they hear people slurp, chew, chomp, or gurgle. My favorite part of the day is when I get to eat food, so when i'm sitting next to someone who chews with their mouth open, having to listening the wide range of gross, unappealing sounds, can totally ruin my meal. Chewing with your mouth open also lets me see all of your food in varying states of decomposition and that is just disgusting! Some people say that chewing with your mouth open can make you look more powerful. The logic behind that is that

After I cut the line, I could observe that some people changed their attitudes and started talking to each other although what they were saying was not as audible. Some expressed their frustration through their faces but did not confront me personally. Lastly, there was one individual who came to me and confronted me but in a rather polite and reasonable manner. He felt that I had violated a norm. Borrowing from the labeling theory, the various meanings that people deduce from the reactions, behavior, symbols as well as labels of others determine how they will evaluate them (Posners, 1979). In this case, if an individual feels that farting in public is bad, then he will classify such kind of behavior as being deviant.

My choice of deviant behavior for this assignment is driven by strong hatred for mayonnaise. I approached this social experiment by filling an empty, gallon-sized mayonnaise jar with vanilla pudding. I then proceeded to bring the jar into an elevator of my apartment building, where I sat cross-legged in the middle of the area and consumed spoonfuls of the vanilla pudding that gave the illusioned appearance of mayonnaise. The lone act of eating in an elevator is considered rude itself, however, when combined with a controversial manner of eating a controversial food item, I expected that this deviant action would elicit a negative response from the individuals around me. My presence in the elevator was sometimes ignored, but often than not, there were several instances where my actions were met with subtle informal and formal sanctions that were meant to control my behavior. I received many confused stares, mean-spirited snickers, and occasional humored faces. I also witnessed interactions between others in the elevator, such as an elbow nudge to a friend, or a quick exchange of eye contact that implied their uncomfortableness. There were also a few remarks such as, “Wow, you must really love mayonnaise” or “You know you’re not supposed to eat that alone right? Try it in a sandwich, it’s a lot less gross that way”. I was also approached by individuals who questioned why I was eating mayonnaise by the spoonful, to which I untruthfully responded by declaring