Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Space Bubble Essay -- essays research papers

Violation of SpaceOn todays episode of Know Your Principles of Sociology, the question is how important are the mundane rules of life? Our contestants in Dr. Marins class helped us out with finding the answer. To answer this they simply violated an unwritten social norm that peck live by in our culture. They decided to violate the space theory. Weather it be to randomly hug people or sit extremely obturate to them, these brave young souls went to the farthest ends to observe and document the expressions of those being violated and those of others witnessing it. We now will go to one of the students to tell us about the experiment.In article 14 of Cargan and Ballantines text Sociological Footprints, they discuss the variable of nonverbal communication. Anyone can learn the words of a language but to apprehend the gestures and facial expressions is difficult unless raised in that culture. That is why understanding nonverbal communication is important, cause without this knowledge then outsiders would be confused and problems may occur.In our experiment we decided to invade peoples personal bubble. To do this we secretly videotaped them while others went up and got close to them. Now normally in an American society we have our space and we do not like it when strangers intrude on that space. If done then the typical reaction is to step foul and gain the space between back. That ...

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