Space Bubble Essay -- essays research papers

Violation of Space     On todays episode of hunch forward 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 profaned an unwritten social norm that people live by in our culture. They decided to violate the space theory. Weather it be to randomly credit crunch people or sit extremely close to them, these brave newborn 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 condition 14 of Cargan and Ballantines text Sociological Footprints, they discuss the variable of communicative communication. Anyone can learn the words of a language but to clear the gestures and facial expressions is difficult unless raised in that culture. That is why underst anding nonverbal communication is important, cause without this knowledge then outsiders would be confused and problems whitethorn 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. straightway 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 emblematic reaction is to step back and gain the space between back. That ...