Informal deviance is the violation of social norms such as picking one’s nose and speaking to oneself in public and not necessarily laws.
Experiment Preparation
Clothing: Plain black Tarheel sweat pants, no pocket, made of cotton and spandex and has blue towards the waist area. Accompanying the pants is a solid long sleeve and almost reaches the knee white shirt made from cotton. No accessories just a black headscarf/hijab wrapped in a simple style. Also, I wore nonmatching socks with black rubber sandals.Both the pants and shirt are big, they look like they belong to my older sibling and not me.
Manner: Constantly dropping my student ID card, walking back and forth talking to myself. Unable to stay still, looking at and speaking to no one in particular. My backpack half open showing how unorganized the materials are inside. Flashcards and a couple of books in my hand.
Mindset: Since I will be impersonating or taking the role of a student who is late for an exam and trying to study last minute at the bus stop by speaking out loud, I need to look …show more content…
Erving Goffman framed dramaturgy, which states that the world is a stage and us humans are the actors. This approach also suggests that we perform on a front stage with an audience being those we are interacting with and backstage when we are alone. In this case, it was a front stage performance. The background assumption people of United States society have of college students is that they are supposed to look organized or professional and I was neither. Additionally, people are not expected to be speaking to themselves in public for it is not the norm. An individual exhibiting such behavior would be perceived as being dysfunctional mentally and physically. Based on my manner of interacting and appearance in that setting I was able to manipulate the people at the bus stop’s impression of me, this is known as impression
Experiment Preparation
Clothing: Plain black Tarheel sweat pants, no pocket, made of cotton and spandex and has blue towards the waist area. Accompanying the pants is a solid long sleeve and almost reaches the knee white shirt made from cotton. No accessories just a black headscarf/hijab wrapped in a simple style. Also, I wore nonmatching socks with black rubber sandals.Both the pants and shirt are big, they look like they belong to my older sibling and not me.
Manner: Constantly dropping my student ID card, walking back and forth talking to myself. Unable to stay still, looking at and speaking to no one in particular. My backpack half open showing how unorganized the materials are inside. Flashcards and a couple of books in my hand.
Mindset: Since I will be impersonating or taking the role of a student who is late for an exam and trying to study last minute at the bus stop by speaking out loud, I need to look …show more content…
Erving Goffman framed dramaturgy, which states that the world is a stage and us humans are the actors. This approach also suggests that we perform on a front stage with an audience being those we are interacting with and backstage when we are alone. In this case, it was a front stage performance. The background assumption people of United States society have of college students is that they are supposed to look organized or professional and I was neither. Additionally, people are not expected to be speaking to themselves in public for it is not the norm. An individual exhibiting such behavior would be perceived as being dysfunctional mentally and physically. Based on my manner of interacting and appearance in that setting I was able to manipulate the people at the bus stop’s impression of me, this is known as impression