Answer Question#7-9 Norm violation my.senecacollege.ca Guidelines for the Report

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Norm violation


my.senecacollege.ca Guidelines for the Report As a group compile a report (one report per group) on the way you perceived people responded to your norm violation. Your report should be no less than 500 words. Use the following questions as a guide to complete the report 1. Which norm did you try to break? 2. Where were the experiments conducted? 3. What kinds of subjects and what were the results? 4. What did you expect to find and didn't find? What did you find that you did not expect to find? 5. What did you actually find? Are there differences by race, gender, class or age? How about social setting or time of day? 6. How did people's reaction to the breach differ? 7. In what ways did your experiment not work? 8. What did the results tell you about the nature of the social rule you tried to study? 9. Why are there social norms? Are they beneficial? If so, who benefits from having them? What is the value to a community or society of having social norms? What would happen if they disappeared? Please go to "Read First-Course Information for directions on how to submit the proposal and report. An example of what breaking a social norm looks like. Breaking Social Norms Experim. O 55 riews 36

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7. In some ways the experiment did not work because my parents found my behaviour completely bizarre and concluded that I was playing a prank on them. They then began to completely ignore me later when I asked them for permission.

8. From the results of this norm violation experiment, it was immediately apparent that there were a set of behaviours defined by and mutually agreed upon my family that required permission and those that did not. These were never explicitly stated or discussed but simply understood. If I decide to go out for the weekend, I would definitely need my parents permission but seeking their consent to go to the washroom invoked annoyance. Perhaps, decisions that have major potential consequences are the ones that need to be discussed with the family beforehand.

9. Social norms exist because they regulate interactions between individuals in order to promote harmony among them. They are beneficial to a large extent because they are implicit rules that members of a group are expected to abide by. Without social norms, every individual would be carrying out their own actions without the regard of others, making it nearly impossible for them to co-exist with others.

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