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As society we set standards for how an individual should present themselves in any setting they may be attending. A professor named James M. Henslin (2015), explained that a norm is an expectation that we set of “right” behavior within any setting (49). A norm violation can vary in many situations from affecting a person’s hearing, sight, smell, taste, personal space or just making an individual uncomfortable. Presenting a different type of behavior that is “enforced because they are thought essential to core values or the wellbeing of a group” (51) may be a different view of defining a norm violation.
Putting it to the test I went out to observe two norms and also committed one myself and evaluated people 's reactions to different events that occurred in public. It was difficult to detect some norms that occurred out in public, but I was able to find a violation at a park as I went to hang out with friends. As the weather begins to warm up, society tends to excuse males and females when they wander off the court or athletic activity they were participating in as they walk around shirtless and …show more content…
I decided to take my norm to a busier location and started testing it at the mall. The mall I choose to attend is much busier than the grocery store as I went on a Friday. There were many groups of people. I began to walk and say hello to different age groups as I would stumble upon as I walked throughout the mall. Majority of the groups I said hi to just smile and said hello, I rarely had people say nothing at all and just walk by me. There was a situation where I said hello to a group of about three young ladies and one of the girls from the group walked up to me and had asked me about an item I was wearing. As I continued I didn’t get many expressions, reactions besides hello, but of the facial expressions I did get many people looked at me
As society we set standards for how an individual should present themselves in any setting they may be attending. A professor named James M. Henslin (2015), explained that a norm is an expectation that we set of “right” behavior within any setting (49). A norm violation can vary in many situations from affecting a person’s hearing, sight, smell, taste, personal space or just making an individual uncomfortable. Presenting a different type of behavior that is “enforced because they are thought essential to core values or the wellbeing of a group” (51) may be a different view of defining a norm violation.
Putting it to the test I went out to observe two norms and also committed one myself and evaluated people 's reactions to different events that occurred in public. It was difficult to detect some norms that occurred out in public, but I was able to find a violation at a park as I went to hang out with friends. As the weather begins to warm up, society tends to excuse males and females when they wander off the court or athletic activity they were participating in as they walk around shirtless and …show more content…
I decided to take my norm to a busier location and started testing it at the mall. The mall I choose to attend is much busier than the grocery store as I went on a Friday. There were many groups of people. I began to walk and say hello to different age groups as I would stumble upon as I walked throughout the mall. Majority of the groups I said hi to just smile and said hello, I rarely had people say nothing at all and just walk by me. There was a situation where I said hello to a group of about three young ladies and one of the girls from the group walked up to me and had asked me about an item I was wearing. As I continued I didn’t get many expressions, reactions besides hello, but of the facial expressions I did get many people looked at me