Tiffani Hall
Socy 230
Essay #1
February 28, 2005

Introduction
The Soup Nazi is a very famous episode of Seinfeld. This show is centered on a new soup stand that is owned by a gentleman who is not very conventional. He demands that his customers order their soup in a certain way and if you do not do it correctly he screams, "No soup for you!"

Explanation of Deviance
This violates the social prescriptive norm of "the customer is always right." The role of the person giving the service versus the person receiving the service is switched. Due to the fact that the customer is providing money and business to the service, the provider of that service is generally supposed to be some what submissive to the desires of the customer. The "Soup Nazi", as he is called, makes the customer feel privileged to be receiving his soup and as if they were doing him a service, and not the other way around.
Kramer, who is the only one that the "Soup Nazi" seems to speak openly too,......

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Title: Soup Nazi
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