Short Answer: Do each question you choose in 1-2 concise paragraphs. Choose any five:

1. Girls seem to be able to have more masculine traits but be more accepted in society. What things in Western society make it harder for the warm and kind adolescent male? Should we as a society think about ways to make the male with more feminine or androgynous characteristics more acceptable? Or on the other hand, should we keep boys and men in the position of leaders in society while teaching girls to be more warm and empathetic so that they will be supportive of the traditional family model? Explain your view.

2. What are ways that society can support non-gender conforming youth in America? What are some contextual influences that can support a healthy sense of gender identity in all American Adolescents and emerging Adults today?

3. Examine the Pew Charitable Trust website:

• https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2022/06/28/americans-complex-views-on-gender-identity-and-transgender-issues/

Look at any part of the data you think seems helpful to young people dealing with complex gender identity issues in America today. Discuss that data briefly as it makes you feel most hopeful about society's ability to support young people with their gender identity development. What are some good and bad things the data you looked at told you about issues of gender for emerging adults?

4. How does a racial, ethnic or cultural group help develop the self-esteem, even when ironically, the group identity is marginalized in certain parts of society? How can their context, their relationships with families and their relationships with peers help them to make the best use of their ethnic and racial self- knowledge and self-concept?

5. Marcia, Arnett and Erik Erikson believe there should be parts of our lives where we can have a moratorium on development. Discuss the things that adolescents and emerging adults usually do in American society as their kinds of "rites of passage" that give them space for the moratorium on development. Discuss what young adults who might not do these typical things (go to college, go to the military, live with a partner without marriage, for example) can do to get some breaks from adult development before they completely commit to their final identities.