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1. Facing the people while standing in an elevator. (Make sure you make eye contact – a simple hello would be okay too.) (Must ride an elevator that has at least 4 floors and ride it 3 or more times.) Hospitals tend to be popular for this exercise.
2. Eating without utensils when required. (Must be at a sit down, service restaurant, no buffets or food courts.) Do not tell your server what you are doing, this will ruin the exercise. – Popular restaurants used in the past have been Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Chili’s, Denny’s, and TGIF. (Please do not eat finger food or food that people may or may not eat with their fingers, sushi, ribs, chicken fingers, etc.)
IMPORTANT: You simply need to break this norm, there is no need (do not) act strange, weird or go over the top. The idea is not to make anyone think you are disturbed, ill, or purposely trying to be different, it will be enough to simply break the norm. Also, think it through, don’t put yourself in any situation that could put you in danger. You must break these norms with strangers only…acquaintances will know that something is up!
Select one of the norms discussed above. Then go and observe the normal behavior which interests you. At this point do nothing to disrupt normal processes. Your present goal at this point is to understand normal behavior in order to gain a basis or comparison when you observe others’ reaction to your norm violation (e.g. standing and facing people in elevator). You must know what normally occurs so you can identify behaviors occurring in response to your violation-behaviors which would not have occurred in the absence of a violation.
1. With a partner (friend, relative, classmate) go to the scene of the planned violation. Your partner is there for support and to gather information on others’ responses to your offense. Your partner will pretend not to know you and will remain inconspicuous. You then violate the social norm while your partner helps you observe the responses others make in reaction to your behavior. (For the restaurant offense you can sit at the same table or different one, but only you can eat with your fingers.)
2. Then you will write a paper covering the following: (The paper should be a minimum of two pages, double spaced, Times New Roman, 12 Pitch)
a. Briefly describe the setting that is pertinent to your norm: location, time of day, number of observers, age, race, sex, and/or social class of the observers, general mood (quiet, loud, etc.) The purpose of this is to gather any information which might tell us about the course or patterning of the observer’s responses. Also, state your partner’s name.
b. Briefly describe your own behavior. How did you go about breaking the norm?
c. Describe in detail how you felt while breaking this norm and why you believe you felt this why? (Think this through.) Do not just tell me you were nervous and because you never eat this way or do it this way- dive deeper!
d. Describe in detail the responses of those who witnessed your norm violation. Was there anything interesting you observed in regard to the reactions you received? Were there any patterns of behavior from certain segments of the population? i.e. did younger people respond differently than older, gender, race, etc.
(The information your partner provides will help you here.) Report how these responses differ from the normal behavior you witnessed previously.
e. (Most important) Discuss the power of social norms as reflected in the personal difficulty you may have experienced in purposefully violating one and/or the reactions you received. This section should be used to consider why some norms may be easy to violate and others difficult. (This should discuss norms in general and not just specific to the two norms assigned.) Does this difference depend on social sanctions? (Why or why not?) (Look up Social Sanctions if you do not remember what it means.) Refer back to the lecture if necessary.
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