Question

What is a social norm? What are they for? What do they give to individuals and to society? What happens when they are breached? Why do people care? Then, give us the purpose of the experiment and of the paper. What social norm did you select for your breaching experiment?

Answer 1

A social norm is a shared expectation or rule about how individuals should behave in a given society or group. They serve as guidelines for appropriate behavior and help maintain order and cohesion within a community. Social norms provide individuals with a sense of belonging, predictability, and social order. When social norms are breached, it can lead to discomfort, disapproval, or even social sanctions. People care about social norms because they help establish social norms because they help establish social order and facilitate social interactions.

In the experiment and paper, the purpose was to study the effects of breaching a specific social norm. The social norm selected for the breaching experiment was intentionally not mentioned in the conversation, so I don't have that information.

Answer 2

Step-by-step explanation:

the fields of sociology and social psychology, a breaching experiment is an experiment that seeks to examine people's reactions to violations of commonly accepted social rules or norms. Breaching experiments are most commonly associated with ethnomethodology, and in particular the work of Harold Garfinkel. Breaching experiments involve the conscious exhibition of "unexpected" behavior/violation of social norms, an observation of the types of social reactions such behavioral violations engender, and an analysis of the social structure that makes these social reactions possible.[1] The idea of studying the violation of social norms and the accompanying reactions has bridged across social science disciplines, and is today used in both sociology and psychology.

The assumption behind this approach is not only that individuals engage daily in building up "rules" for social interaction, but also that people are unaware they are doing so.[2] The work of sociologist Erving Goffman laid the theoretical foundation for ways to study the construction of everyday social meanings and behavioral norms, especially by breaking unstated but universally accepted rules. Garfinkel expanded on this idea by developing ethnomethodology as a qualitative research method for social scientists. Later, in the 1970s and 80s, famous social psychologist Stanley Milgram developed two experiments to observe and quantify responses to breaches in social norms to empirically analyze reactions to violation of those norms.[3][4]