Violation of Space On today’s episode of “Know Your Principles of Sociology,” the question is how important are the mundane rules of life? Our contestants in Dr. Marin’s class helped us out with finding the answer. To answer this they simply violated an unwritten social norm that people live by in our culture. They decided to violate the space theory. Weather it be to randomly hug people or sit extremely close to them, …showed first 75 words of 608 total…

…showed last 75 words of 608 total…In conclusion, our experiment illustrated that our culture always is uncomfortable with the idea of the “bubble” being popped. In each case the victim was in wonderment as to what was going on and how he or she should respond. Our culture has its unwritten rules and follows these rules in everyday life. We learn them from day one and disturbed when someone breaks one of these rules. We showed you that in our experiment.