Breaching Experiment Essay

Deviant Behavior Report

During this experiment the object was to create an act which was deviant, and observe the reactions of myself and others. The word Deviant means "that it differs from the norm or standard in some significant way". For the experiment I conducted I acquired a jar of mayonnaise. Then I emptied the mayonnaise out of the jar and filled the jar with white pudding. The point of doing this was to make the white pudding in the jar look like it was mayonnaise. When I was done making the fake mayonnaise I was ready to conduct my experiment. The experiment was to vigorously eat the fake mayonnaise straight out of the jar with a spoon in front of people and observe how they react. This is not necessarily a deviant behavior because I was eating pudding,...show more content... Well first my behavior was considerably deviant. It was proved by the reactions of others, and as most people can agree that eating mayonnaise very fast out of a jar is not normal. By the definition of deviant, it should be considered deviant because it differs from the norm in a significant way. I would also consider this behavior as dangerous. This is because eating mayonnaise straight out of the jar in quantity's I was eating is very unhealthy and could cause many health issues if done regularly. It should be considered dysfunctional because it was effecting the restaurant I was in. this is because they didn't get business while I was satisfied with the fake mayonnaise. Finally I don't think that eating mayonnaise fits into the distress category. The definition of distress is "extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain." And I don't see how eating mayonnaise causes this. Moreover, I believe that something such as anxiety, sorrow, or pain can drive someone to eat mayonnaise in large quantities, and vigorously. As it states in the textbook "should we conclude, then, that feelings of distress must always be present before a person's functioning can be considered abnormal? Not necessarily." This leads me to conclude that we should still classify that behavior as abnormal. By definition of abnormal it is understandable. The definition of abnormal is "deviating from what is normal or usual, typically in a way that is undesirable or worrying." This behavior is undoubtedly not usual, and is defiantly undesirable, or

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Social Breaching Experiment

Social breaching project Experiment Description: Being a college student I am aware of just how asocial and isolated college students tend to be while on campus. My experiment consisted of sitting next to people, more specifically, searching for those who were sitting by themselves at a table with empty chairs surrounding them. After finding the best subjects I would then walk right up to their table without speaking and sit down right by them rather than on any of the several available chairs around them. I executed this experiment at the library located at Cal state Long Beach during lunch hours (12:15pm–1:00pm) meaning the library was usually crowded. I would look for someone sitting alone at a big table and would then go ahead and make...show more content...

People expect others to remain a certain distance away depending on the relationship they have with someone. The closer a person is to another relationship wise (friends, relatives, partners) the more acceptable it is to be physically closer to them. The opposite can be said when strangers invade one's personal boundaries at times it can be more than just uncomfortable having someone stand too close can also be seen as threatening. In an individualistic society, such as the one in the United States, being independent is highly encouraged. Rather than "all for one and one for all" people are told to work hard for themselves not for society as a whole. By sitting next to strangers not only did I infiltrate their boundaries but I also distracted them from their work by putting them in an uncomfortable situation. Since most subjects continued to do their work and mind their own business they held their needs as more important than interacting with me. When those two girls had an actual conversation with me and saw me as a friendly stranger rather than threatening they did not necessarily consider my needs but they did acknowledge my presence enough to set aside their work even if just for a moment. Being the social creatures that we are talking to others can put people at ease seeing that the people I sat next to took out their phones I saw that even though they did

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A breaching experiment is arguably the best way to obtain data of the sociological reactions exhibited towards a fracture in the perceived social normality. Commonly, people are able to enjoy a leisurely stroll from store to store in a shopping mall with little or no obstructions in their path. Faced with the encumbrance of someone hindering their stroll, how would they react? This is the question we strived to answer. First, we had to decide how we were going to impede their travels. The settlement ended being relatively simple; just sit down in the middle of the walkway. But that wasn't quite enough to suite what we were looking for. There had to be something else being done while sitting to dupe one's emotions so they would attempt to...show more content...

We posted up in front of the Verizon Wireless Kiosk on the first floor and in front of the Zumez store on the second floor. The trials took place on March 18th of 2010 and on March 22nd of the same year at around two o'clock on both of the dates. Our results often ended in people straight up ignoring us, which one would assume to be a common reaction. Confronted with the initial choice of what to do when someone is doing something odd, people are very often directed towards the option to ignore. It is a way to detach one's self from the incident to where the only evidence it happened is a memory. Another common reaction was the infamous double take. Many a passerby would look back at what they just passed obviously perplexed by what they had seen. Many of the reactions were noticeably different between people of varying physical appearances and perceived social class. For instance, children often have a much more colorful response to something they don't recognize. One example of this, during one of Andrew's trials, a young Asian girl performed a dance around the experimenter as if trying to cheer them up. Another situation of physical traits affecting the reaction are when old couples are used. In every case they appeared, the old couple would ignore the "breacher". African–Americans were no strangers to this either. Their attitudes were almost always the same in the

Breaking Norm Experiment

For the breaking norm experiment I wanted to create an awkward encounter with a stranger. Once the encounter takes place I would try to start a conversation and hold it for at least five minute. There is many was I could of done this experiment, but I wanted it to be executed in a way were it didn't give an uncomfortable vide to the individual. Some ideas that had were going up to random strangers while their walking to class or lifting at the gym. At the end I choosed none of theses ideas because I felt like the result would be bias if it was done this way. The reason for this is because I wouldn't have a long enough encounter with the test subject. Most people at the gym or walking to class have are restricted by time. So I design my experiment

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