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Zahra .F. Jabbar Positive Deviance Standing up when my teacher enters the classroom - A form of respect 1. Describe your deviant act. Set the stage in terms of your act: where, when, who, how many times, etc. ● My deviant act is to stand up out of my chair and wait for my teacher to enter the classroom and be seated until I sit back down as a form of respect. This will happen when I have my in-person classes which occur 3 times at school. I will be doing this for one week to see the e±ects of this specific deviant act. I will do this to each of my teachers (3 teachers in total). 2. What did you hope to accomplish with this act? What was it a comment on/about? ● It is very uncommon to see this form of respect being displayed by students as teachers coming to class for their daily lessons has become more casual in Western society. My goal is to see how teachers feel when a specific type of respect is shown by their students. 3. Explain why this act should be considered deviant. ● This act is considered deviant because it is very uncommon. In this part of the world, teacher-student relationships are very casual, and greeting them is far from what is considered normal. It's not abnormal in North American societies for students to stand up as their teacher walks into the classroom. It might be interpreted, therefore, as excessively formal which is not normally seen in relaxed educational settings. Although standing up is often done by students as a show of respect, it is not usually accepted as a universal societal norm. Standing up can occasionally even be seen as an indication of discomfort or indi±erence. A person's cultural norms, individual preferences, and the circumstances surrounding the scenario will determine whether or not it is appropriate to stand up when a teacher enters the classroom. In Canada, this kind of behavior would be regarded as strange and rather odd.

Zahra .F. Jabbar 4. Did this action make you feel uncomfortable? Why or why not? ● This action did not make me feel uncomfortable, as I studied in Qatar for 4 months when I was 12. It was compulsory to stand when a teacher would walk in and wait until they were seated. Trying this social experiment here in Canada was something I was not uncomfortable with as I had experienced before. I was a little nervous as the first two days my teacher looked at me in shock. 5. What was the reaction from others? Did their reactions suggest that they believed they were viewing a deviant act? ● My friends and classmates were shocked, I got some side-eyes before explaining to them that this was a social experiment. I asked them how they felt and they told me that it was odd. After seeing me perform my social experiment, my classmates started to do the same. Slowly, this odd behavior became a daily routine. 6. Did you have to defend or explain your actions to anyone? ● Yes, I did. After the second week, I told my teachers and they laughed since it was odd for them at first. They slowly started to get used to being greeted by all of the students standing up. It made them feel more respected and formal. 7. What could you do to make this act receive stronger feedback from observers? What do you believe their reaction would be in that case? ● Doing it for the entire school year (starting in September until June), instead of starting mid-month would help me receive stronger feedback from my classmates and teachers. Once people see something odd happen more often, the odd behavior becomes more tolerable and normal. I think my peers would find it less weird if I started from the very beginning.

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