February 4th‚ 2015 Breaking Cultural Norms Paper Cultural norms are established standards of behavior maintained by society. For a norm to be significant it must be widely shared and understood. Such behaviors are learned from parents‚ elders‚ teachers‚ and many others whose values are in the context of a specific culture. When faced with others expectations regarding our own behavior‚ we have a tendency to typically do what is expected. I decided to do the unexpected and break a cultural norm. The
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Breaking of a Social Norm Part I: 1. Walked on the right side of the hallway 14. I stopped at a red light 2. Carried my books at my hip 15. I went at a green light 3. Left a tip for the waiter at Las Chalupas 16. I wore shoes in public 4. Chewed with my mouth closed 17. I drank out of a glass 5. Called someone when I was running late 18. I turned on a light in the room
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Breaking a social Norm Social norms are the customary rules that govern behavior in certain group of individuals. These rules specify how one should behave‚ and it clarifies what may be considered normal or acceptable to society. The type of norm that I have decided to violate for this assignment is a folkway. Folkways are informal‚ unstated rules that govern society‚ unlike laws‚ which are formal written rules. Folkways are a behavioral adaptation that developed to make social life possible. They
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communicating with anyone to avoid it. But what happens when you disrupt this silent rule? How would other workers and customers react to this public behavior? Would there be any repercussions for breaking this norm? How would I feel? The reason why all of us act proper in public is because of store etiquette. This norm is followed because of our fundamental belief “treat others like you want to be treated”. We wouldn’t want to be treated poorly in the first place. My experiment broke
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Contextual norms can guide our behavioural conduct. We experience conformity when we allow other individuals to influence us‚ thus changing our behaviour and perspectives. The normative social influence theory suggests that humans feel the need to belong to groups. Over time‚ we have learnt that survival is more likely if we work together. However‚ to ensure order‚ we must share common norms and values. Due to this‚ we learn and adapt by conforming to the rules. Because of this‚ when be observe people’s
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went to Khan el-Khalili on a Friday afternoon and it was about 40 degrees. My plan was to observe the different reactions between the people in the Egyptian souk and the people around the goldsmith’s shops and Naguib Mahfouz coffee shop‚ to my norm breaking outfit. I planned to stay an hour in each area. I chose to wear a very heavy wool jacket and a pair of Uggs‚ (calf-high boots made of heavy wool) with a pair of jeans and winter accessories. My expectations were that people would laugh and I wasn’t
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For this assignment‚ the norm that I will break is invading personal space. Having personal space is a norm because people do not like to have other people excessively close to them. It makes them uncomfortable. Most people consider someone that they don’t know walking or sitting very closely to them as very discomforting. It is essentially an unspoken rule that you must give people their personal space‚ at least around a foot. In order to violate this norm‚ I will get very close to everyone I encounter
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to admit. I told her it was a social experiment I was doing for my sociology class and apologized‚ she said “oh okay cool” and walked away. That was one of the most awkward situations I was put in throughout the experiment. When I broke the social norm with my professors it was
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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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Social Norms Anywhere we go‚ there are going to be at least a couple of different norms occurring at the same time. From walking onto a train to sitting in a someone’s home‚ everyone will behave in distinct manners to which they have grown accustomed. The way we behave is not in the matter of right or wrong‚ but only what our society allows us to. In our society‚ we have a number of society norms that we abide by. For example‚ there is an unwritten rule of how one should behave in an elevator
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