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what sort of deviant behavior can i do to get a social response?

I'm in a sociology of deviance class and I have a group project that involves going out in public and doing deviant behavior to illicit a response. we then have to record the public responses to the behavior and report on it. so far we have examples of standing at a public location and doing nothing, which apparently draws some of the best responses according to the teacher. another idea is to get one of the females in the group to pretend to be pregnant and go drinking at a bar. I'd like some ideas from you guys. If I end up doing one of your ideas for the project i'll personally select it for best answer myself.

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Thanks Paige. I'll take some of these into consideration. for some of these like the elevator and pudding I may have to do farther from my college as there are many people who already know of these and may not illicit such a good response. the squeezing someone's nose i think is brilliant and I wonder how I could pull it off in a very serious environment like a job interview or gala.

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  • 8 years ago
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    stand facing the back wall in an elevator is one of the better known ones. eating vanilla pudding out of a mayonnaise jar. instead of shaking someone's hand when you meet them, quickly squeeze their nose.

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