For this week’s discussion I decided to violate a norm at work. I am a tutor and I usually tutor about 4-5 students in a classroom. When I was getting hired‚ I was told that as a tutor I should always be on time‚ dress in business casual clothes and be professional. This week I decided to go into to work in jeans‚ a T-shirt‚ and flip-flops. I walked in to work like any other day and just started walking toward my classroom. From my peripheral vision‚ I could see my boss staring at me from head
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Lloyd‚ Napoleon 1 Jasmine Lloyd Noelani Napoleon Psychology 101 5 April 2013 Volver Essay In the film Volver we were introduced to several different social norms from the Mexican culture that we were unfamiliar with. Raimunda and her mother have a wounded relationship in the film that is rebuilt when her mother (Irene) is‚ so say‚ brought back to life to rekindle their relationship. There were several themes in this film but I think the one that stood out the most was the sacrifice that
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Personal space. All people value this as social boundary and create appropriate norms. As we were assigned this task of violating a social norm in public‚ I began to consider all the strange personal space norms our society and campus holds. For example‚ while riding the bus if there a few people on it‚ you are typically going to sit two seats or more away from one another. However‚ when the bus is packed to the brim‚ which is the only time you are permitted to sit right beside a person or stand
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While social norms bind us‚ we bind others to our own ideals. In psychology‚ this concept is referred to as projection. We only know what we know‚ and like to think that others are the same. It’s not a bad thing‚ since we need to find similarities in each other due to being a social species. Of course‚ there are times when we overstep the line and find ourselves believing another is exactly like us‚ instead of respecting their individuality. Though it’s innately human nature to want to make marks
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Social Norm Project Sweater Backwards Behavior: Walk around with my sweater backwards. For this project I plan to walk with my sweater on backwards around parks‚ family‚ friends‚ and random people I see in stores. I also plan to observe and record their reactions. I think if I walk around with my sweater backward a lot of people will notice and give weird looks or laugh because it is out of the ordinary. Experiment: Trial 1- I went to nob hill with my Oregon sweater on backwards. Some
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The social norm I decided on was to stare at someone for a couple minutes‚ or longer depending how long it took for the other to be aware that they were being watched. I did the assignment in a cashier’s line at Wal-Mart to a woman who looked like she was in her early 50’s. The way I stared‚ to be a bit more descriptive‚ seemed like I was nonchalant or impolite depending on how you viewed the situation. Violating this social norm was awkward and it felt like I was creeping on that lady. The reason
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based upon the bearing and influence on the construction of social norms. These norms are continued through the daily implementation in nuclear familial unit. Scholars such as Karl Marx‚ Max Weber‚ and Emile Durkheim have made sociological observations and developed theories based upon these observation in an attempt to explain the social and personal interactions of individuals. Although these general observations are noticed in social settings between strangers‚ they can also be observed in family
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people react to my violating a cultural behavior norm? Specifically‚ I want to know how people will react to me talking to myself while riding the train. I propose that when I violate a social behavior norm by talking to myself on the train‚ people will respond tome in ways that indicate to me that my behavior is deviant. People will probably look at me strange‚ laugh at me‚ make fun of me‚ and probably more embarrassing things. I performed my norm violation on the CTA Orange Line Train around 3:30pm
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Breaking Barriers “Because I have a voice!” I have once wondered why people are meant to speak‚ why people are meant to do something not as comfortable as sleeping and not as easy as breathing. Speaking is not a simple task. It is done with much thinking. It is done with the right mix of bravery and belief. I asked myself‚ “Why do I speak despite the hardship?” Then‚ I found the answer within me. I found the answer in one of God’s gifts to man- a voice. I speak because I have a voice. We
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