Discuss the importance of norms and values in society and what function they serve in society (in other words, what do values and norms do).

Breaking the Norm
This project is designed to introduce the student to the norms of our everyday world and what it
is like to disrupt these expected ways of behavior. You are required to go out into the social
world and break what is known as a folkway or a norm that is not strictly enforced. You are then
expected to write about your personal experience and the reactions you received from those
around you.
This project should include a/n:
Introduction it must:
o define and explain what values and norms are
o discuss the importance of norms and values in society and what function they
serve in society (in other words, what do values and norms do)
o explain how values and norms are different but related
o what you seek to explore/examine in this paper by conducting your experiment
describe what norm you broke and, if possible, what value/s this behavior challenges;
describe how people responded (in other words, what were the positive or negative
sanctions received)
explain how you felt violating this norm
Conclusion what did you learn?
Your write-up must be:
2-pages
Double-spaced
12-point font, Times New Roman
2
Grading Rubric:
Excellent (50 45
pts)
Competent (44 35 pts) Needs Improvement (34-0
pts)
Description and
understanding of values,
norms, and sanctions.
Description is clear,
complete and
accurate
Description is
somewhat clear,
complete and accurate
Description is weak,
unclear, incomplete,
inaccurate and/or missing
entirely
Provides a clear opinion or
connection to the ways in
which values, norms and
sanctions operated within
the context of the
experiment and ones life
in general.
Thoughtful
reaction/opinion,
supported with
personal experience
and detailed
examples from the
experiment.
Offers opinion, though
limited relevance to self
and some detail of the
experiment.
No reaction, or very poor
personal relevance and little
detail of the experiment.
Grammar No errors or very few
grammatical errors.
A significant number of
errors, but not enough
to interfere with
comprehension
Grammatical errors
interrupt reading/
understanding of discussion of topic

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