Deviance

This week we talked a lot about deviance which is where someone goes against the social norm. This norm though, exists within the place and time that the event is occurring though because norms change so frequently and depending on who one talks to or interacts with. For example, someone over a 100 years ago may walk to school because their school was close by and cars weren't as common as they are today. Today though, someone walking to school may be deviant because most people have their own car or can easily get driven to school. We also talked about how their can be such thing as positive deviance and we were given the task of doing some act of positive deviance at some point throughout the week.

This assignment was very different than most assignments I usually do for school. I believe in doing nice things for people in general and going out of my way because I see how it impacts them and makes them feel good. Even if it's something as subtle as holding a door or saying thank you when someone goes out of their way to do something for you, that positivity can go a long way and spread through others. That's why for my assignment I chose to say hi to anyone I saw in the hallways that was in any one of my classes, no matter how much I talked to them during class. People responded surprisingly very positively. I could tell it made people happy that I said hi to them, especially if they were just walking alone. I know if someone did that to me it would make me very happy so I wanted to reciprocate that and make someone else's day a little better too.