Sociology In The Restroom

Growing up you were taught not to eat in the restroom. Have you ever wondered why you were taught that? The society that we live in thinks that it is disgusting. It is all a part of sociology, which is, the study of a society, whose goals are to establish, explain, and predict patterned regularities of human behaviors (Norton Sociology). I challenged this social norm by using the restroom as a dining area. While I am doing such a “strange” thing I will utilize sociological perspective and sociological imagination to analyze people’s reactions. At Frederick Douglass High School I ate my lunch inside of the female restroom. Before doing this project, I thought about how people would refer to me as “the girl that eats inside of the restroom.” But, I went to the cafeteria and received my lunch. I pulled a chair inside …show more content…
The girl looked at me and then continued to brush her hair in the mirror. Every time I would put my head down to bite a piece of my sandwich; she would look at me to make sure that I wasn’t looking at her stare at me. Even though, she didn’t say any thing the way that she looked at me expressed that her sociological perspective was that I was weird. Next, a trio of girls walked inside of the restroom. They looked at each other and burst into laughs. One of the girls recognized me from class and asked me, “Girl, What are you doing? Why are you eating in the restroom?” I did not respond at the moment although, I really wanted to tell her this for my sociology class. This was a complicated task for me to do because I have a reputation to up hold at school. In my society, as a whole, we have shaped the idea that eating in the restroom is a bad thing. I took my self out of everyday norms and looked at this in a brand new perspective. People used sociological imagination to disconnect their personal experiences to figure out why would I be doing this. This activity is rated a 7 based on