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.