Follow Social Norms

From our class we have discussed following social norms. We do it without even thinking. It’s become a human habit to follow the group and do what is expectable. Social norms are things that are expectable to do in a public area. We follow social norms naturally such as giving a stranger space in a public area or talking at an appropriate volume. What we don’t think about is violating social norms, yet we know we someone has violated these unwritten rules. This makes people fearful of crossing the fine line of social norms. Most specialized psychologists trust in the theory that people are more likely to follow the majority opinion than their own in a high-pressure situation contradicting their own beliefs. Majority of the time I’d have to

I helped put on a local 4-H dance. The dress was supposed to be semi-formal along the line of a nice dress. I have an unwritten war against dresses I decide to go comfortable since I’d be dancing most of the time. Instead I wore a nice shirt, blue jeans, and my cowboy boots. To be able to resist a social norm like I did, I think someone has to be resilient in what they believe. Someone who doesn’t have a preference won’t go against anything, because it takes more effort to go against than to follow. It would also take courage knowing people might say things or look at you. Thus, if you violate a social rule it would take confidence and courage to do so without second guessing yourself or feeling embarrassed. My partner, Emily, and I completed a social experiment violating social norms in public. We decided to do something that wasn’t going to be controversial or difficult to conduct. We finally settled on the idea of sitting down in the middle of a crowded aisle in Walmart. We were curious to see if people would walk around us or ask us to move. We decided to test the experiment somewhere there are a lot of people and traffic to gather good data. We set the date on Friday at 4:30p.m. at Walmart. This time would be busy because of the weekend and right before people might go out to eat. We also choose Walmart not only the crowd, but because of the variety of people to be our