Violating the Norm- Sitting with Strangers South University What happens when someone invades your personal space? Especially when this person is someone you’ve never met or seen before? Does it matter if this person is black‚ white‚ male‚ female‚ young or old? We’ll I’m going to try an experiment on a few unsuspecting people sitting and enjoying their afternoon in the food court at the mall; to see what and how they react to me sitting next to or across from them. In today’s day and
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this experiment was to break a cultural norm. In order to achieve this‚ we decided to press all of the buttons in an elevator‚ and gauge the responses of the other passengers. The objective was to see how people would react or respond to this odd act. We believed that people would become irritated and say something to us or other passengers. If we press every button on an elevator‚ then bystanders will be visibly uncomfortable with this deviation from the cultural norm. II. Methods For our experiment
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Breaching Norms: Personal Space Informal cultural norms play an important role when interacting with the public. “They let us know how to behave around each other and how to feel comfortable in our community” (OpenStax College 2015:63). Personal space is one of the many informal cultural norms most people within our society conform to. To test this norm‚ I went to a popular mall where people from all walks of life can be found and imposed on the personal space of other shoppers. Most people feel
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wrong‚ these are basically cultural norms which define a particular society. So it warns about the dangers of assuming that our preferences are based upon some absolute rational standard.
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Social norms are created through both cultural values and presentation of self‚ with these concepts of reality being constantly learned throughout our lives by means of social interaction as well as outside influences such as media‚ movies‚ television‚ and even observing strangers. Through these interactions and influences we determine what is publically acceptable in our society and conform ourselves to these social norms in order to remain in sync‚ by upholding our self presentation and social
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An Examination of Cultural Norms and the Science of Fitting as seen in “Mean Girls” The movie “Mean Girls” follows the story of a high school age girl who comes from a homeschooled background and is suddenly thrown into a typical American high school social environment. Her adjustment to this transition is shown through a story arc that chronicles her attempts to gain her peers’ approval. The way in which she attempts to do so is by consciously changing her identity to fit into whatever social scene
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Balayong Summer Cup 2013 Girls Division: Green Team Captain: Khatlyn Tonog 1. Diane Venus Adame 2. Myzel Intia 3. Myla Intia 4. BJ Allyson Villanueva 5. Rachelle Ann Robles 6. Ronalyn Biscocho 7. Mylenne Robles 8. Jemariz Sandoval Muse: White Team Captain: N. Kalalo 1. Nad Kalalo 2. Alodia Kalalo 3. Emerald Chua 4. Manilyn Adia 5. Cristel Castilio 6. Ronalyn Magnaye 7. Elaine Magpantay 8. Rachelle Ann Robles Muse Boys Division:
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1. The major factors that contributed to EuroDisney’s poor performance was the lack of market research and cultural awareness. EuroDisney was built just like American Disney parks‚ without giving though to cultural differences. American characters were used‚ instead of French cartoon characters. Disney banned alcohol in a culture that enjoys drinking wine. Everyone showed up for breakfast in the mornings‚ when Disney had cut down their serving because they were erroneously informed that Europeans
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Arguments in favor of the ban on tobacco advertising in India: India has several million smokers accounting for a significant proportion of the world’s smokers. According to the article‚ the World Health Organization (WHO) said that tobacco accounted for over 3 million deaths in 1990; and by 1998 the figure would rise to 4.023 million with an increasing threating rate of 10 million in 2030. The tobacco problem in India is peculiar; it is characterized by a large proportion on non-cigarette and smokeless
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Royal Dutch Shell- (RDS) Answer Guidelines: Q1. Discuss Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and how they impact Royal Dutch Shell in doing business abroad. Define culture: “culture is shared‚ learned values‚ norms of behaviour‚ means of communication and other outward expressions which distinguish one group of people from another”‚ or the collective programming of the human mind Main two theorists in Culture- Hofstede as the main and Trompenaars relational dimensions Dimensions are: Power distance
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