MARIELA'S ACTION PLAN |
ARACELY'S ACTION PLAN |
1.Define the norm you will violate
The norm I will violate will be the beliefs of almost every person in my neighborhood. Many people here are against Donald Trump because of what he has said towards our race. I will wear a shirt that shows my false support towards Donald Trump and I will see how people react or what they say. 2.Describe briefly how this norm acts as a mechanism of social control. This norm acts as a mechanism of social control because many will disagree to what I will be wearing. I won’t be following society's expectation for me, a Mexican. 3.Describe what you will do to violate the norm. Wear a shirt that supports Donald Trump in a school community where many disagree with his ideas. Hypothesis 4.Describe the range of possible reactions others will have to the violation of this norm. I feel like people are going to want to jump me or verbally insult me because of what I will be wearing and who I will seem to be supporting. 5.What do you predict the major reaction to be? Verbal insults, mainly. Potential Setting 6.Where do you plan on the norm violation taking place? Be specific as possible. Places where I won’t be exposed to authority. Maybe the washroom or down the hall. 7.How many and what type of people do you expect to encounter? A lot of Mexicans, or hispanics overall. Reflection 1.Describe your own and others’ reactions before, during, and after each violation. I felt uncomfortable, I strongly disagree with Trump and his ideas. I got asked why I was wearing a shirt that said “Vote for Trump” a few times and I was looked at with dirty looks. In class I was told “Mariela you’re going to get shot” and I was also told “You know it’s gonna be red by the end of the day with your blood.” The student was referring to the white shirt. I was also told “You’re gonna die.” 2How did the reactions compare to what you had anticipated? I was pretty astonished when I heard certain things people told me. I anticipated for people to just give me dirty looks and maybe a push or something, and the dirty looks did happen, but I was also asked and told a lot of things. 3.Note any differences between the groups’ reactions and discuss possible reasons for them. I mainly got reactions from hispanics. Other groups either didn’t notice it or chose to ignore it. 4.Why does the norm you choose to violate exist? What would happen if it didn’t exist? Would the results be good or bad? If the norm of disagreeing with Trump didn’t exist people would probably like my shirt or they wouldn’t even mind it. I wouldn’t get negative comments or dirty looks. 5.Did your experience stimulate any other questions? How would you test those question? During the experiment I wondered what would happen if I would use my shirt outside of school, in the community. Would the threats actually come true ? Or would people just verbally insult me. Learning Extensions 6.Look up the “spotlight effect” (not the kind that relates to photography or photoshop). Define it (in your own words) and describe how it relates to your experience. The spotlight effect is when someone wants to be the center of attention. It relates to my experience because I felt like I was the center of attention and I felt like everyone was staring and like I had the spotlight while wearing the “Vote for Trump” t-shirt. 7.What did this exercise teach you about the social justice activism as a method for changing the world? Social Justice activism is a method of changing the world because with social justice we achieve equality. Equality can change the world in many ways. Decreasing violence, justice among all, etc. 8.Some people regularly choose to break social norms and act as social justice activists. Name 2-3 famous people who you consider to be social justice activists. Why do you think some people choose to be social justice activists? Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are three famous people who I believe are social justice activists. I believe they chose to be social justice activists because they wanted equality and justice for everyone. |
Activism as Deviance Assignment Brainstorming
Statement of the Problem 1. Define the norm you will violate? -The norm that I will be violating will be to support a candidate that I wouldn’t support normally. 2. Describe briefly how this norm acts as a mechanism of social control. -It’s not the candidate I would usually support and especially in the neighborhood that I’m in wouldn’t support the candidate which is Donald Trump. 3. Describe what you will do to violate the norm. -I’m going to create a shirt that will say vote for Trump to school and see what people will say to me. Hypothesis 4. Describe the range of possible reactions others will have to the violation of this norm. -People will look at me in negative ways and they would probably ask me questions and also tell me that I’m going against my own culture. 5. What do you predict the major reaction to be? -People are going to say to take the shirt off and don’t wear it around school at all. Potential Setting 6. Where do you plan on the norm violation taking place? Be specific as possible. -I will wear the shirt only in school because wearing it in the streets will be dangerous. 7. How many and what type of people do you expect to encounter? -I think six people will tell me something about the shirt and the rest would just be surprise and teachers, students, and faculty members from the launch room will be people that I will encounter in school. Reflection 8. Describe your own and others’ reactions before, during, and after each violation. - Before I put on the shirt I felt really dumb designing the shirt because I really dislike Donald Trump and I felt that I was going against my own family and my own people. When I put on the shirt I was uncomfortable wearing the shirt and when I would walk between campus other students would whisper in each other's ear and some would pass by me and course while walking away. After doing the breaking the norm I felt relief in not wearing the shirt no more because I felt that I was making a fool of myself. 9. How did the reactions compare to what you had anticipated? -The reactions that I had anticipated were right, one of my friends told me to take it off because she hates Donald Trump. Some teachers were laughing at my shirt and other teachers were in shock and had to reread my shirt or had to ask me what my shirt said. 10. Note any differences between the groups’ reactions and discuss possible reasons for them. -Other group members would ask me if I have been jumped yet, because on the news they would say some people have been jumped because they support Trump. 11. Why does the norm you choose to violate exist? What would happen if it didn’t exist? Would the results be good or bad? -I think it exist because some people pretend to like or support certain things that they normally don’t like because of friends or media. I feel that if violating a norm didn’t exist people would act how they should act and be themselves not someone they are not. I believe that the results would be good because everyone would be themselves and no one is lying. 12. Did your experience stimulate any other questions? How would you test those question? -The question that I had was how can some people support things that they don’t really like and be able to live with that. I can assume that people like the attention knowing that other people don’t like what they are representing or they do like what they are representing so people continue to break the norm. Learning Extensions 13. Look up the “spotlight effect” (not the kind that relates to photography or photoshop). Define it (in your own words) and describe how it relates to your experience. -I think that spotlight means that a person believes they are receiving a lot of attention then they really are and but they are not. I felt the same way in people looking at me and giving me dirty looks because of the shirt people would pass by and just look at me but sometimes I would forget that I had the shirt. 14. What did this exercise teach you about the social justice activism as a method for changing the world? -This exercise made me realize how people would pretend to be someone else and lie to themselves about something they like. 15. Some people regularly choose to break social norms and act as social justice activists. Name 2-3 famous people who you consider to be social justice activists. Why do you think some people choose to be social justice activists? -I think Martin Luther King choose to be a social activists because he wanted blacks and whites to be equal and he refuse to fight with weapons and fight with speeches.Another social activists would be Cesar Chavez who went on a hunger strike to raise awareness for farm workers rights. |