Stereotypes And Stereotypes Of Stereotypes

Stereotypes are a form of prejudice everyone will once experience in their lifetime. Stereotypes are centered around an individual's race, gender, social class, religion, and age. They have been known to be elements people use to make judgments and subjectify people to one key feature. As Gordon Allport states, “ To state the matter technically, a noun abstracts from a concrete reality some one features and assembles different concrete realities only with respect to this one feature”(364). Mr.Allport’s words can be summed up to say stereotypes have been used as key fundamentals to associate one feature or aspect of a person with a group that represents it, typically in an unfavorable way.

There are many different stereotypes in the world today. They can be used for different categories like age, gender and race. Stereotypes are formed by the media, passed down from many generations and also just the populations need to understand the social world around us. Racial stereotypes make up large portion of stereotypes in today's society. Racial stereotypes can be used for comedic effect and our found to be funny by a majority of people, but they can also be depicted as hate to an ethnic group if it goes too far. One example of a race effected by stereotypes are Asian people. They have many stereotypes that have developed over the years. An example of a stereotype Asian people experience is that they cannot drive very well. Some

Stereotypes have been apart of society since the beginning. Stereotypes are often a generalization or assumption of an individual, and can be positive or negative. Stereotypes appear in the workplace, school, and daily life. There are stereotypes on race, gender, religion, sexuality, social class, professions, weight, and schooling. One example of stereotyping is if one sees a white-American female with blonde and blue eyes, one may say she’s “dingy”, “dumb”, and or “typical”. Now that female may be an all honor student, but because of a stereotype she was generalized to be the complete opposite of who she really is. Stereotyping a person based off of their appearance is one of the harmful effects of stereotypes. Stereotypes are harmful and counterproductive

Stereotypes are generalizations about a group of people whereby we attribute a defined set of characteristics to this group. These classifications can be positive or negative, such as when various nationalities are stereotyped as friendly or unfriendly.

First of all, what are stereotypes? A stereotype is a quality assigned to groups of people related to their race, nationality, and sexual orientation, but there is not only one type of stereotype there are actually two types of stereotypes. There are positive and negative ones. For example, a positive stereotype about asians would be that they are smart and polite. A negative one would be something like asians have small eyes or they’re short. Some people may get offended by these and other people will not care about it at all. These are effects from the stereotypes.

Stereotypes can be defined as sweeping generalizations about members of a certain race, religion, gender, nationality, or other group. They are made everyday in almost every society. We develop stereotypes when we are unable or unwilling to obtain all the information we would need to make fair judgments about people or situations. By stereotyping, we assume that a person or group has certain characteristics. Quite often, we develop these ideas about people who are members of groups with which we have not had firsthand contact. Stereotyping usually leads to unfair results, such as discrimination, racial profiling, and unnecessary violence, all behaviors which need to be stopped.

The dictionary defines stereotypes as “a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.” Our world today is run by an infinite amount of stereotypes. They affect every aspect of people's’ lives. Members of society let others’ opinions affect their own, and people who go against stereotypes are frowned upon. Some stereotypes include those surrounding African Americans, people of Asian descent, and transgendered people. Most people look at an African American male and either get scared of him, assume he raps, our plays sports. However not every single black male in the world partakes in those activities. Some people look at Asians and assume they are all smart, and good at every subject in school, but that

A female officer has to deal with a lot of criticism, there is the female cop stereotype, the pressures of having to prove themselves to their male counterparts, as well as society’s expectation of any female who is out in the work force. A stereotype is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular of person or thing. Along with stereotypes, comes exaggerations of those stereotypes being made. An exaggeration is a statement that represents as better or worse than it really is. After that exaggeration has been made from the stereotype comes the misconceptions of it all.

Stereotypes make us simplify our social world so it’s it becomes easier to recognize some situations. They make us understand basic groups of people to some extent of truth. “The most famous study of racial stereotyping was published by Katz and Braly in 1933, 100 university students were asked to indicate the traits most characteristic of ten different social groups. Students displayed a high level of agreement about the traits of certain racial and ethnic groups, such as Negroes (described as superstitious by 84% of the students, and as lazy by 75%), and Jews (described as shrewd by 79%).” All kinds of people of stereotypes about others.

Stereotypes or as some people call them generalizations are assumptions people often make about the characteristics of members apart of a certain group or race. Though there is no exact period to determine when stereotypes were developed, through commonsense, the answer to these questions is captured in the social learning theory which specifies that learning is a cognitive process that takes place in a social context and can occur purely through observation or direct instruction. In agreement with an article in Psychology Today, the brain uses stereotypes to create shortcuts for itself to explain why things may be a certain way, and many people don’t realize that their brains are making these presumptions subconsciously. Growing up in the

Stereotypes are everywhere. The shaping of an individual’s identity can be affected through stereotypes, especially one’s on race or religion. Stereotypes can affect an individual’s way of thinking. Stereotypes hinders an individual from becoming the person they

Stereotypes affect people in their daily life all the time. People get offended all the time and they don’t deserve to be made fun. Blacks are always looked at if they are less than other people. Women are always looked at as weaker than men and men can do more than women can. Equality is a big problem in society and people don’t always view other people as equal, they feel they are superior to other people. Stereotypes have gotten better over the years but they need to be stopped for good.

Stereotypes can be found everywhere you go; they are inescapable. You can find stereotypes in schools, malls, parks, and the workplace. Believe it or not, people label others for a reason. Stereotyping can be traced back to thousands of years ago. Stereotypes can affect people very negatively. People can think very badly of themselves because of stereotyping which can lead to depression, self harm, or suicide. Stereotyping is not only negative, it is also unfair. Everyone has a story but by instantly judging them, you will never know what is truly going on and they might be completely different than what you expected.

Stereotypes are seen as something that can be modified but they surely begin as an uncounscious process deribed from our previous knowledge and culture as well as our socio-economic status and level of education. It is imperative for people to abstain on making judgements bases in an uninformed/unconscious process and evolve as a society to better direct to our peers and better interact in social situations by not letting our innate nature classify certain people without having an assertive knowledge of their background before judging.

Stereotypes are assumptions or generalizations that people think and label a particular person as belonging to a group based on how they look in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, and other categories. Stereotypes are a big problem in our society because they have a negative impact and can be damaging to a person’s emotions. Thus, any stereotype on individuals is viewed as wrong and in the end, it’s us judging one another. I was stereotyped as a thief because some people assumed I was stealing. As a result, I was affected by this because if they stopped to see what I was actually doing, they would have seen I was buying a box to give someone a present.