Sociology March 12, 2001 “Breaking the Norms” It is 9:00 PM on a Sunday night. Televisions all across America tune into MTV. Millions of viewers will now spend the next thirty minutes watching a television program titled “Jackass”. While watching this program, the viewers will observe everything from people eating hard boiled eggs in an attempt to purposely vomit, to a man testing out various self defense devices on himself. Next week viewers will tune into the same …showed first 75 words of 609 total…

…showed last 75 words of 609 total…watched and I continued down the block in reverse. They watched for the next few minutes as I finished up the experiment, then came up to me and asked me what I had been doing as I got out of the car. I told them about the class experiment, and went into my house. I learned one thing from our class experiment of “breaking norms”, and that is that I have nosy neighbors. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**