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    seemed to be a prime example of falling into Social Norms or as the defense attourney in this particular case described as “College Culture”. I am using social norms theory to provide a sociological explanation of masculinity‚ physicality‚

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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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    some scholars‚ the norms of society‚ both internal and external to the domestic setting‚ and the conventional perceptions these provide surrounding key issues across the globe‚ are of upmost importance and hold the most influence upon states. These scholars suggest that states act based on ethical and morally concerned relations‚ as to correspond with the norms held by the members of their domestic population and the population of the globe. These ideas surrounding social norms however can be proved

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    Strengths and Weaknesses of Self-Report Inventories My personality type is INTJ. I have taken his test on a number of occasions throughout my life and my findings are the same. What strikes me as different was that the scores did not add up to a whole percentage of 100. By this result I had a very low percentile in thinking and low percentile in judging. This is strange because I’m a huge thinker‚ I also have anxiety which explains why I overthink many things and why I have no marginal preference

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    Normal habits that are outrageous and completely wasteful and disrespectful. Our opinions and perspectives are shaped by what we read on the latest Twitter post from the trending column. Brief‚ eye catching headline that could be completely different than what the actual article is about. If it’s a study‚ is the information actually truthful? It is very easy to create correlations without any causation. People

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    PSYC 221 Extra Credit Assignment Amanda Jabin Norms are generally social rules or guidelines that groups of people follow throughout life. They guide social behavior because going against any sort of norm is looked upon by other people in a manner that draws attention to the person going against the norm. In general‚ the attention that people receive for breaking a norm is negative and the person therefore tries to avoid breaking social norms. Norms that I have seen been broken include people walking

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    Deviance is best described as actions that go against society’s norms. When one commits an act of deviance‚ they are performing an act that is not necessarily illegal or frowned up‚ but it is an action that deviates away from peoples’ common notions. Deviance itself does not measure anything of magnitude. If someone were to cough without covering their mouth‚ that can be considered deviance‚ as can murdering someone out of cold-blood. Many go by the idea that “deviance is relative.” This simply means

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    Norm Violation The social norm that I chose to violate was to go into an elevator and instead of turning around and facing the door upon entering; I had my back to the door and faced the other people in the elevator. In normality a person enters an elevator‚ pushes the button for their desired floor and turns to face the door to avoid eye contact with strangers‚ and prepare to exit the elevator. The reason I choose to violate this particular social norm was because I’ve never seen anyone else

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    our behaviour in society‚ this is commonly referred to as the norms of culture. But what happens when we decide for whatever reason to break or breach the cultural norm. How do we feel before‚ during and after the event? What way are we perceived in our cultural society after carrying out this act? All very interesting questions to ask. To find out a little more on this topic I decided to carry out an act of breaching the cultural norm. This was a case study to analyse my feeling and the feelings

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