Social Norm Research Paper

I picked the social norm that people take away their water bottle, popcorn corn boxes or boxes people use when eating food or snacks at any types of shows or sport events. I picked this social norm because many people believe that it is rude to not to take away their trashes after a show, and I agree with this belief. However, there are numbers of people who do not follow this social norm, we can simply see them after a certain event for example: after every University of Arizona football home game, there are thousands of water bottles, taco boxes left on the ground at the football stadium. I know this fact because after every football games I stay to clean up the stadium with the group of people. People may think they do not have to do this because some one will pick it up for them. It is true but it takes them hours to pick those thrashes up, if every individual throws their trash after an event, there won’t be this problem and other people would not have to spend many …show more content…
I also looked up the most of the seats to check if there are any soda bottles left, unfortunately, almost all people left their trash, and people did not seem to care about them. They showed no reaction to this matter as if it was just a typical norm for people to do. To be honest, I was surprised to see all the people’s reaction and their behavior. My reaction toward to this norm is definitely surprised, before I picked up this norm for my project, I had almost no idea of how people pollute the environment by simply not respecting the others work. Although, I was one of them who does not follow the norm, I obviously do not feel very good about the result because it shows that how lazy we have become that we do not carry our thrash to the door to throw. And I certainly hope that everyone feels the same about this issue as me and take an action starting from right