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Opposing people, which are against breaking social norm find it, a dissatisfaction toward society. To perform this violation and go against the normal behavior which are not acceptable in society. The social experiment I choose to conduct was wearing my clothes backwards instead of wearing them forward. It’s the perfect opportunity to gage other people psychological reactions, and observe their reactions, on me breaking this norm, which is a dress code violation of not wearing the appropriate direction which is forward. When doing this act it will trick the minds of the people; that adds to the mechanism. It’s not so much as playing a trick on the people, but to see what the people will do; will they confront you, or will they keep walking.
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