Folkway Breaching Experiment

The past couple of weeks, I have studied and conducted experiments involving breaching’s of normal folkways. With the knowledge of our readings, personnel research, and conducting the experiment I will soon share in this paper, I have come to understand the true importance of folkway norms. Some social processes are important not because they frequent occurrences in everyday life but because they serve as a frame of reference for the conduct of daily life (Coie and Pennington 1976). This explains functionalism and how in stimulates individuals to live together cohesively. My breaching attempt was designed to cause anger, as most deviance does. I was surprised that each of my respondents had different defense mechanisms to the breaches I was …show more content…
I actually expected this. Our relationship is what we consider a normal one, I also had to take into consideration that we are competing for the next promotion. That is always in the back of our head when we are dealing with one another in the same military occupational specialty. This was easily a rebel at its best. Without hesitation my deviance was rejected. If I did not explain what was going on, he would have never spoken to me again, and probably not lost any sleep over it. In our readings we learned that the differential association theory stats that, we learn to be deviant through our interactions with other who break the rules (Sutherland 1939; Sutherland et al. 1992). This theory is steadfast in the USMC. Good and bad traditions are passed down, and we fight with valor to uphold these standards. Accepting animosity from someone without some sort of retaliation is the quickest way to be eaten in this gun …show more content…
Homeschooling three boys and a fourth attending high school, she tells me about all the deviance she has to deal with on a daily basis. Though I did not expect I would deal with the labeling theory, during the hour talk my wife and I had she brought up some important issues. She was adamant about our kids not being labeled as disrespectful little rug rats. The conditions in which we raise the kids (jokingly or not) will mirror the things they do once they are out on their own. She went on to say that people will judge them based off of their looks, the way they walk, dress, and talk. She did not want me to influence them badly unless it was a dire situation. I open my book and showed my why that the labeling theory stats that deviance is a consequence of external judgments, or labels, that modify the individual’s self-concept and change the way other respond to the labeled person (Howard Becker 1963). She said, “That is exactly what I just