this crazy week in society

I feel like the more I learn about society in our class, the more I begin to see it within everyday life. Which is good cause it means that I am actually learning things and applying them. This past weekend I went to Illinois State University to watch the class 4A shooting competition as well as the girls state championship games. For the Bolingbrook vs. Zion-Benton game, the Zion-Benton team had a very large squad supporting their team. For their squad, they had a set of norms. The norms seemed to me like the dress code. Faces were painted, designed shirts, crazy outfits, but all for the common purpose of showing support to their team and school. The squad new their limits to what cheers they could do and how they could act in a public facility with lots of security. They still had to maintain themselves and be respectful to the facility and others that were trying to watch the game as well. I think that to others, their outfits may have been breaking folkways. There were girls wearing short-shorts, and it's winter time, with cut off shirts. This of course was a special occasion but it still is not a typical outfit that teenage girls wear in the winter time. Another folkway was that at half time the squad blew up beach balls and started hitting them around, however, this was not allowed and security was there to break it up right away. Because of the security getting involved I was reconsidering calling it a folkway and maybe giving it a little more serious term. I saw one particular instance where a girl did not stand up and cheer with the rest of the squad because she was busy texting, even though she was sitting amongst them, and a boy nearby who was in the squad actually called her out on it. This to me seemed like she was breaking a folkway within their squad. She knew that she should be standing up and supporting, like the rest of the students, but instead she did otherwise. All in all, I feel like the squad and the fans at the games and competition were a pretty good look at norms and groups for what we have been discussing.