Genevieve's qualitative methods instructor asked the class to perform a ________. The next day, whenever someone asked "how you are?" instead of responding with a simple "good, and you?" she responded with a further question such as "in regard to what-Life? School? Work?"
A) rulemaking experiment
B) breaching experiment
C) ethnomethodological study
D) norm deconstruction study

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A breaching experiment involves violating social norms to analyze people's reactions, which is what Genevieve did by not responding in the expected manner to a common question.

Genevieve's Qualitative Methods Instructor Asked the Class to Perform a ________