his exam includes the short answer and essay questions for Exam 2. The questions focus on information in the course from the module on morality through the module on mental illness. Your answers on the written questions in this portion of the exam are worth a total of 10 points, 10% of your grade in this course. Make sure to spend a good amount of time and energy answering the questions. Your answers to these questions need to show very clearly that you read, understood, and can apply what you learned to think critically and creatively. The answers need to be heavily based on the material from this course and to be in your voice and not the voice of generative AI. You have from Sunday 5/11 through Sunday 5/18 to work on your answers to these questions. This portion of the exam is not timed and you may save and come back to your work until the exam is due at midnight at the end of the day 5/18. You do not need to use ProctorU or to go to the assessment center for this portion of the exam. Just use this link.
Question 1
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According to the lesson on gender, what are four ways that gender is socially constructed? Identity and fully explain the four different ways that societies act to construct gender, and explain how gender is constructed in these four different ways, giving examples and really showing that you understand the different means by which each different society or culture constructs gender. These are spelled out in the lecture slides on “How Do Societies Construct Gender.” I am not refering here to types of gender and physical sex, but to the ways that people are socialized into experiencing and performing gender in different ways.
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1 points
Question 2
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In this course, you have studied social and cultural forces that increase violence. Currently, a dispute between India and Pakistan that has existed since 1947 in the region of Kashmir has flared back into outright military conflict after a recent terrorist attack. How can what you have learned in this course about cultural and social forces that increase or decrease violence help explain the current conflict? In order to answer this essay question, I would like you to read about the conflict and use materials from this course to formulate your answer. Think about the different aspects of culture that have been shown to increase violence, as well as ideas about morality, honor, and social identity. How can these help us understand the anger and hostility in the region? The terrorism, military conflict, and oppression?
Here is a link with information from different sources I would like you to read before you answer the question. Reference information from these readings in your essay by including in text citations. Use the author or name of the article with the year if available. Put them in paretheses. Also, remember to include in text citations to reference the PowerPoint slides in this class or other readings. Remember to include references to specific slide or page numbers where the information you are describing is located. Include the name of the source and the slide or page number in parentheses in the text of your answer.
Remember that essay questions are not short-answer questions. Essays include multiple, full paragraphs.
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4.5 points
Question 3
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Imagine you could design a culture where people were as happy and psychologically well in their lives as people could possibly be. Based on the lessons on happiness and wellbeing and mental illness, as well as potentially any other lessons from this course, identify three characteristics of life in your imaginary culture (three norms for behavior, thinking, or feeling) that would probably help people in that culture have high levels of psychological wellbeing. Use the information from the course to define psychological wellbeing, and then identify three different cultural characteristics that research evidence indicates are very likely to contribute to high levels of wellbeing and low levels of mental illness.
Justify the three characteristics you choose by referring to information and the results of empirical studies presented in multiple sources from course material (Haidt reading on happiness and wellbeing, the videos on the subject, and/or lecture slides) that show that these cultural characteristics are likely to increase wellbeing or lower mental illness. At the very least, these characteristics should be strongly correlated with high levels of some aspects of psychological wellbeing. Indicate in your answer the source of information from the class where the connection between each cultural characteristic you mentioned and wellbeing was made (the textbook, lecture slides, films, or additional readings. Include in parentheses the name of the source from the course and the page or slide numbers where the information you are referencing is located.
Also remember that this is an essay question, and so your answer should include multiple paragraphs. As you think about what to write, go back over the material from the units on wellbeing and on mental illness, and identify social factors that psychologists think play a large roll in affecting how psychologically well people are.
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4.5 points
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