Violation_Of_A_Social_Norm

Violation Of A Social Norm Field Experiment: Violation of a Social Norm In this project, we were asked to violate a social norm in a public setting and make observations on what we saw and how our audience responded. The social norm that I chose to violate was simply that of common courtesy. I decided to go to the mall and walked around, bumping into random people and saying absolutely nothing in apology. I simply bump into them and keep walking as if nothing has happened. Norms are a very important part of society. In the book, norms are defined as “the specific expectations about how people behave in a given situation”. Without norms, a society has no foundation on which to stand. It would have no, as the name promotes, normalcy. Norms are what make a society unique. Other concepts such as ethnocentrism also tie into how norms affect a society. People who are ethnocentric often compare the norms of their society with that of others and through this, determine that their own society is superior. In contrast of these ideas, I believe that all societies are normal according to their owns norms, not the norms of others. In doing my experiment, I expect many different people, reaction, experiment, walking, society, nothing, norms, just, bumped, around, about, kept, looks, happened, food, excuse, courtesy, court, alot, time, norm, mall, common, while, very, unique, towards, say, person, others, little, kinds, kind, heard, encounter