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Cislaghi, Beniamino, and Lori Heise. “Gender Norms and Social Norms: Differences, Similarities and Why They Matter in Prevention Science.” Sociology of Health & Illness, vol. 42, no. 2, 2020, pp. 407–22, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7028109/.

This article by Cislaghi and Heise examines the crossroads and distinctions between social norms and gender norms, taking the backdrop of any effort made toward the promotion of gender equity in health. The current authors explain an analysis of the historical development of the concepts of social norms and gender norms and outline key areas of comparison and contrast between social and gender norms. They emphasize the need for clarity of conceptualization as a driver to the efforts focused on harmful norms and practices in the specific domain of low- and middle-income countries. “In recent years, social norms theory has for the first time been applied in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) to address a variety of health-related challenges, ranging from adolescent health and female genital cutting, to child marriage and intimate partner violence.” This source provides an important background and theoretical framework for understanding the differences and overlaps between social and gender norms. This would define and clarify the concept of gender norms, mainly in the context of my research paper on gender and society’s norms in terms of themes in the literature.

Mustofa Ali, and Jonnie Lynn Hill. “Understanding Cultural Context in Responding to Literature: Researching the Teaching of Literature in EFL Classroom Context.” English Language Teaching, vol. 11, no. 6, May 2018, p. 108, https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v11n6p108.

The article by Mustafa Ali and Jonnie Lynn Hill discusses the critical value of the cultural context when responding to literature in the EFL classroom. The authors argue that appreciating the author’s cultural and historical contexts is central to rightly interpreting the texts. They talk about creative ways that students are helped to relate their life experiences to what they read and to understand different cultures, which enhance the feelings and attitudes in the text. This source is also very relevant to my research paper because it emphasizes the need for a cultural context in analyzing themes and characters of literary texts being studied by my argument on the important nature of cultural perspective in interpreting literary works. As a key quote in the article states: “Appreciation and understanding of a literary work is based on how one can translate the ideas and words into new contexts.” The interactive nature of understanding literature and the cultural involvement between the writer and the audience is key.

Rivera, Grace N., et al. “Understanding the Relationship between Perceived Authenticity and Well-Being.” Review of General Psychology, vol. 23, no. 1, Mar. 2019, pp. 113–26, https://doi.org/10.1037/gpr0000161.

This article explores the connection between “perceived authenticity and the state of one’s psychological well-being.” Rivera et al. synthesize works from both the philosophical and psychological traditions, arguing that personal authenticity leads to well-being, with various perspectives that have doubted the true existence or knowability of a true self. Although there has been some argument that self-reported authenticity is biased by socially desirable responses, the authors maintain that subjective authenticity does make a unique contribution to well-being. As such, this source complements my research in that it helps me gain insight into such conceptual niceties in the context of authenticity and how they influence well-being in correspondence with subjective experiences and their psychological implications. A quote from the article that can illustrate such a perspective: “We argue that the relationship between perceived authenticity and well-being may be understood from a social-cognitive lay theory perspective that we label ‘true-self-as-guide,’ that suggests people use these feelings of authenticity as a cue to evaluate whether they are living up to a shared cultural value of what it means to live a good life” in this quote, the subtlety in understanding authenticity on the part of the authors and the implications it has on psychological health and cultural values.

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