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Sociology
Everyone has been taught to have six inch voices when you are at the library. So the folkway that I chose was to walk into the quietest part of the library and yell. I chose this because the library is a naturally quiet place for studying, reading, and concentration. So I figured I would get a strong response for not doing my social role. Ever since I started school I have internalized the social controls of the library which is to whisper and be quiet, and by yelling in the library I know this will be a negative sanction. Going into my experiment I was expecting strong reactions such as: glares, shushes, people turning around, others getting up and leaving, and even people telling me to be quiet. I thought the main reaction would be people giving me shushes, because that seems to be such a natural reaction.
To begin my experiment I walked into the library and went by the stairs. As I got to the stairs I paced around them to get ready for my experiment. There was about 10-12 students studying...