Conduct a norm breaching experiment

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Assignment:

You MUST violate a norm that is SPECIFIC to your family, roommates, friends, community or culture.
Please ensure that your experiment does not put anyone in danger or break a law;
Identify a norm that is specific to your culture, community, family, friends.
Engage in some form of norm violation activity (a folkway NOT a more).
Write down the responses of those individuals observing your behavior (if possible talk to them).

Respond to the following questions in the word count of 500

Which norm did you violate? Explain the norm and how it is specific to your culture, community, family, friends...
How did people in the setting respond?
How did the norm violation itself and their response make you feel? Did you feel any desire to "repair" the interaction once you breached the social norm? (explain, debrief the people involved, apologize)
How might a systematic or continued breaching of this norm change our definition of what is "normal"?

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