Deviance and Social Experiments

During class one day, we learned about deviance. Deviance is something that is not a norm of society. An example would be wearing sunglasses during the night. So with this information we were told to go out and do some social experiments and see how people would react. Our group members were myself, Aljendra, Paris, and Ellis. Before the experiments, we came up with hypothesis on how people would react. The funny thing was that while we thought that people would do something, they either did it to the extreme or not at all. Our first experiment was having me dressed as a raggedy blind person and getting robbed by Paris. Surprisingly, we got a lot of reaction the first time with 2 people in cars stopping Paris and people on the sidewalk asking if I was okay. The next time, no one reacted when Paris robbed me. I thought that some people would stop and they did. What I did not expect was that the next time we did the experiment, no one reacted. Our next experiment involved Paris and Alejandra. When we stopped by Jack In The Box © Paris started to verbally abuse Alejandra, but the drive through person did nothing and just let it happen. This was the most fun of the experiments, due to the hilarious nature. I personally thought that the person would go and get the manager but my other group members had a good point to make and that was that we looked like teenagers trying to have some fun; so maybe that was why we weren’t taken seriously. Our third and final experiment involved Paris, his car, and Alejandra. While Paris was hiding, Alejandra stopped a stranger and asked if he could help her with removing the tire. The guy was hesitant but as he was about to help, Paris arrived asking what was happening to his car and then chased after Alejandra. The guy walked away. Overall all the experiments were fun and produced interesting results. While I didn’t get all the reactions that I thought we were going to receive; it was obvious that there are still a few good people out there ready to help.

Resource Management Project

This project involved looking at an issue and seeing what we could do to help change and or improve the outcome. I looked at the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker and what could be done to improve its situation because it was at almost thought to be extinct. But there were signs found and the hunt was restarted. Basically, my solution was trying to get the word out about the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker and tell people to not destroy its habitat. In the end, I created a PSA, sent a letter to a Governor, wrote an abstract, and wrote a editorial to a newspaper about the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.

Letter to the Governor
Abstract
Editorial

Drug's Short Story: Spider Pig

Here is a project that we did for Elika that involved looking at the sociological side of drugs and trying to answer: Why do we do what we do? This project involved researching a drug of our choice and doing an interview with three people. Furthermore, we did a research paper that looked deeper into the drug; mine was Vicodin and just see why people abuse drugs. Then with the interviews and essay research, we created a short story combining all the elements of the project. In doing this project I found out that more teenagers are using pills (7 out of 10 have tried prescription drugs) and that it is actually very cheap to purchase Vicodin and many people easily abuse it because its easily obtainable and cheap. Besides doing a short story, i also wrote a poem from my main characters perspective about whats happening with his life. You can read my short story and poem here:

Short Story About Vicodin
Poem