Folkways make up our society today. Folkways are behaviors that individual’s exhibit and are what is considered “normal” actions. If one would break a folkway, you could either receive negative or positive sanctions for your odd behavior. A negative sanction would include someone giving you a weird look or feeling uncomfortable when you exhibit this odd behavior. Depending on the folkway you violate, your behavior can also reward you with positive sanctions. For my folkway violation, I decided to wear my undergarments on the outside of my clothing for a family dinner at my house. Needless to say, I received some minor negative sanctions when I did my norm violation. When I walked in the kitchen with my undergarments on the outside of my
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This is because I have established a sense of comfort with the members of my family and I’m not scared to act differently around them. Also, my family members are used to my strange actions so it doesn’t faze them who I do something out of the ordinary. Another factor as to why I was comfortable violating this norm was because I am not judged by the members of my family in my daily life. Although, if I had broken this folkway in public, it would have been extremely uncomfortable. This is due to the fact that I am exhibiting abnormal behavior in front of complete strangers whom I am not completely comfortable …show more content…
The dramaturgy theory compares an individual’s life to the theater, where we take on roles and act them out for an audience. These roles that we take on contains a front stage and a back stage. The front stage is when an individual puts on a façade of how he/she wants to be portrayed by society. The backstage is when an individual can step away from their façade and be their true self without fear of judgment. When I did my norm violation of wearing my undergarments on the outside of my clothes in front of my family, I was in the backstage of dramaturgy. I wasn’t afraid of judgment or doing something silly and different in front of my
This is because I have established a sense of comfort with the members of my family and I’m not scared to act differently around them. Also, my family members are used to my strange actions so it doesn’t faze them who I do something out of the ordinary. Another factor as to why I was comfortable violating this norm was because I am not judged by the members of my family in my daily life. Although, if I had broken this folkway in public, it would have been extremely uncomfortable. This is due to the fact that I am exhibiting abnormal behavior in front of complete strangers whom I am not completely comfortable …show more content…
The dramaturgy theory compares an individual’s life to the theater, where we take on roles and act them out for an audience. These roles that we take on contains a front stage and a back stage. The front stage is when an individual puts on a façade of how he/she wants to be portrayed by society. The backstage is when an individual can step away from their façade and be their true self without fear of judgment. When I did my norm violation of wearing my undergarments on the outside of my clothes in front of my family, I was in the backstage of dramaturgy. I wasn’t afraid of judgment or doing something silly and different in front of my