Deviant Field Observation Examples

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Our deviant field observation act was playing cards in the middle of a shopping aisle in a big store. This is deviant due to the violation of social expectations of what to do in a normal grocery store. Trent and I both played the classic game of “Go fish” sitting across from each other horizontally so it blocked the aisle and made the situation uncomfortable for anyone wanting to go down the aisle. Our hypothesis was that everyone would be extremely uncomfortable and would most likely turn away and not say anything. We first started our act of deviance in the toy aisle with Trent’s little brother filming the experiment. After about a minute of playing we had a lady that came down the aisle perusing the toys for her children. As soon as she