Today, Using the Wrong Fork to Eat a Salad at a Dinner

question 48

Multiple Choice

Today, using the wrong fork to eat a salad at a dinner party would not usually qualify as deviance. Why not?

• A) American society no longer has rules and etiquette governing which utensil to use for salads.
• B) That sort of norm violation is seen as an intentional rebellion against convention.
• C) Most dinners are eaten with friends, who don't apply sanctions for deviant behavior.
• D) There aren't norms governing food and eating.
• E) It is not a serious enough norm violation to provoke sanctions.

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