Social Psychology Approach To Breaching Norms
Later work in the field of social psychology adapted this approach, but often refers to the phenomena as social norm breaking. Two of the most well known studies of violation of social norms by a social psychologist were carried out by Stanley Milgram, well-known for his infamous obedience experiments. One was conducted New York City subway in the 1970s, when experimenters boarded crowded trains and asked able-bodied but seated riders, with no explanation, to give up their seats. The other was conducted in the 1980s, and studied the reactions to graduate student experimenters cutting ahead in lines of people waiting to purchase railroad tickets. . Although these experiments build on the sociological work on breaching norms, it is also noteworthy that they are approached quantitatively by being structured in a way which allows the experimenter to observe a count people's reactions.
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