Question

If you were to tell someone that you were conducting breaching experiments, you would be telling them that you were intentionally _________.a) trying to convey a good impression and seeing what happens. b) violating social norms to see what happens. c) challenging total institutions to see what happens. d) resocializing others in order to see what happens.

Answer 1

Answer: b) violating social norms to see what happens

Explanation:

BREACHING EXPERIMENTS

These are common experiments in Sociology and Social Psychology that aim to examine people's reactions to a violation of accepted norms and values in society.

Associated with Harold Garfinkel, these experiments usually take 3 phases:

1. Exhibition of uncommon behavior such as shopping from other people's shopping carts.

2. Observing how the person/ people will react.

3. Analysing the social structure that made such a reaction possible.