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Soc 300 Cultural Emo: final paper |
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5 Truths + our book 3 Questions - pick one 3-page paper - can you do this in 3 pages?
Weave the book and above "truths" into your paper to illuminate your points. . Reply to just 1 of the 3 questions below. You have up to 3 pages in which to reply. Double spaced.
1. 1.
What
is your greatest fear? How has your culture coaxed you to see
(fact field), to judge (judgement field), and to certain practices
(practice field) which create and maintain that fear? (The true the
beautiful and the good given you by your culture.) What is your
greatest dream? How has your culture encouraged you or created the
obstacles to force you to find the stamina in yourself to hold fast to
that dream? (Use the 3 “fields” as above. You may choose to focus
on either the greatest dream or the greatest fear - they may be
connected.) 2. 2. Emotions are not moods or states. Moods and states come from emotions and last longer. Emotion is a feeling that comes over us when our frame of reference is “interrupted.” The impact of the interruption is on the sympathetic or the parasympathetic nervous system. Take an emotional event (positive=love or negative=Fear Anger Loss) through the Emotional Zone, watching how you traveled the zone, observing how you could have traveled it, and, noting the cultural expectations and pressures and openings of your emotional zone. Noting your cultural context means to observe and relate what your culture says “is,” what your culture offers you to do, and how your culture judges and controls your mind, your feelings, and your actions. You may have conflicting cultural contexts (e.g., your ‘mate’ and your mother, your group and “America”, your school and your work). When emotion is an impact on the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight) we would be wise to “go counterclockwise” and engage in a positive or balancing practice rather than to go to judgment, which will be negative. When emotion is an impact on the parasympathetic nervous system, it is enjoyment, love. Even then it might be wise to move counter-clockwise to the practice slice, because when we move from enjoyment to judgment, we put extra pressure on the system to maintain itself. (“This love should last forever.”) Practices automatically maintain energy through action. Practice automatically puts us in the present and not in the future-past. Judgment is a defense when it comes from an emotional event affecting the sympathetic nervous system Judgment is an added pressure when it comes from an emotional event affecting the parasympathetic nervous system. Judgment makes matters maintain and judgment almost always “creeps” to the “is” slice. Once you have noted the interruption, noted your reaction, noted the cultural constraints A, B, and C, then turn to the way out of the emotional zone. It will always be a higher principle, one akin to the premise of a Vision Values Cube. there will be an example ... coming right up .... 3. Gender, Emotion by Thu Pham - Make this dense and difficult-to-read article spring to life. The findings are very interesting because they have depth and that has to do with inner feelings of satisfaction. Your task is 2-fold: 1.) Make all the concepts and findings in this article resounding clear 2.) apply it to life as you know it in your sub-culture of Los Angeles today. Life as you know it in Los Angeles today is not static: it is changing. So take a "cross-section" and then look at where the culture is going.
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