As Garfinkel reminds us in his classic “breaching” experiments, the best way to identify and understand norms in a society is to break them and see what happens. Why are you offended?
Discussion Topic Follow Seeing South Park A few years back, I had an opportunity to devote an entire Popular Culture class to the Comedy Central show, South Park. This show, it turns out, is chock full of sociology, and is particularly useful in illustrating various norms, values and beliefs in our society (that’s why it … Read more