Breach-A-Norm Assignment: Students are asked to engage in an exercise of breaking an accepted rule (or norm) in society. Examples of these breaching experiments will be given in class.
Therefore, you will be conducting the breach a norm from outside your home or within your home! Get creative! Trust me, you can break several norms without leaving where you reside and there are plenty to break when out and about!
If you are going to conduct outside the home please adhere to being respectful as many individuals have not yet acclimated to the changes that are occurring due to the changes as of June 15th. For the time being I do not want norms to be broken that will directly affect people such as crowding them in line, for example.
Additionally, please make sure that the norm you are breaking has occurred during the duration of being in the course. NO PREVIOUS experiences. Thank you.
The experiment should not negatively affect the physical or spiritual health of the student or observers.
Following the exercise, students will write an essay of two pages full in length that is typed and double-spaced.
The essay should incorporate answers to the following questions:
1). What is the norm that you are breaking? How did you choose to breach this particular
norm? What is the underlying value behind this norm?
2). What were the reaction of others? How did you understand the reactions
sociologically?
3). What was your personal reaction to breaching the norm? What are your reflections for
why this type of exercise is important?
4) Use one of the 3 Sociological Theories in Sociology (Conflict, Functionalist or Symbolic Interactionism) to explain how they would view the norm that you broke. Would they find it harmful or beneficial to society and why?
5) Sociological Analysis: Expand on your observations, analyze sociological terms from the textbook that seem relevant to the norm that you broke. Sociological terms should be highlighted in BOLD and should also include a definition of the term followed up in your own words how the term you selected relates to your experience in breaking the norm. You must use at least 6 sociological terms in your assignment.
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