Effect Of Breaking A Social Norm In Society

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The effected ways of breaking a social norm in society. A social norm in society, is an expected form of behavior in a given situation. The social norm I choose to break is wearing clothes backwards instead of wearing them forward. In fact, the ideal purpose of breaking this norm, is to examine other people psychological reactions. It judgment against the decision of wearing my clothes backward by being bias. To adapt toward the situation, I view it from a sociologist standpoint as to view human behavior of human society. The development of this experiment, is by planning out the steps for the procedure. First, by putting together an outfit that I will wear in public than choose a specified location and record reactions of passerby’s. After

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