Stereotypes In High School

Stereotypes affect everyday lives, students mostly are affected towards this since children through on out are a branch of life. In Dweck’s article, a group was sent out to study everyday stereotypes that happen in school, “Their studies and ours also found that negatively stereotyped students (such as girls in math, or African-American and Hispanic students in math and verbal areas) showed substantial benefits from being in a growth-mindset workshop” (Brainology, Paragraph 29). And to quote Dweck’s explanation towards those stereotypes, “Stereotypes are typically fixed-mindset labels” (Brainology, Paragraph

Our class was inspired by Shankar Vedantam’s piece to conduct research on stereotypes at Point Loma High School. We were provided questions by Ms. Roberts and asked one person in class and another outside of class. The ages of those interviewed ranged from freshmen to seniors in highschool. Later, we input our data in a Google form and later converted it into a summary data chart and spreadsheet. The results were sorted by ethnicity and gender. Using our results we were able to find trends/similarities of the impact/aftermath and responses of those who were interviewed

Clark’s work on identity and stereotyping has continued and has extended to not only minority groups, but to white-Americans and women as well. Research on prejudices and stereotyping has continued in the area of education. According to Steele (2004), the framework of one’s life can be controlled by their social identity and that individuals must contend to the prejudices and stereotypes that they socially must identify with. Further research suggests that those who are exposed to negative stereotypes are influenced either by believing or mimicking the stereotype or, both (Steele, 2004). Steele (2004) found that stereotypes have contributed to the underperformance of minority groups in the school setting. As suggested by Clark, Steele (2004) also believes that conforming to suggested stereotypes weakens the social identity and brings severe deficits to the ability of student to excel in the classroom. Clark’s ideas on stereotyping were elaborated in the notion that stereotype threat does not only affect minority groups, but can exhibit deficits in any group of individuals. For instance, Steele (2004) offers the example of white vs. black athletes and how in many sports (e.g. basketball or football) white athletes have shown to feel less competent in comparison to black athletes because of

African American children demonstrate early awareness of ethnic stereotypes and can identify some stereotypes about their group due to highly salient physical characteristics that may have forced them to face stereotypes at an early age. Shelvin, Rivadeneyra & Zimmerman (2014) conducted an experiment on churches, after-school and cultural enrichment programs with students aged between 10 to 12 years. One hundred and eighty-six African American students from various social class levels took two tasks; the Stereotype Awareness task where they wrote all the stereotypes they know about their race, referring to the definition and example for stereotypes that were given to them on the top part of the answering paper and the Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity-Teen (MIBI) test was introduced where students defined their group identity, beliefs of others about them, and importance of their identity for self-concept. Students’ results were mainly around seven

Stereotypes are uneducated opinions towards a certain group, most commonly used within races, skin colors, and cultures. Stereotypes are usually from a majority group towards a minority group. Most of us do not think about it much but, Stereotypes are in our everyday lives, and everyone has taken part of a stereotype, either they have been the one stereotyping or they have been the victim of a stereotype and has been stereotyped. Throughout my life, I have heard a lot of stereotypes towards my kind, and more than likely it is always a negative stereotype. Some stereotypes through time die-off but as they die-off, new stereotypes flood or society. I am a minority, I am Mexican-American and classify myself and embrace myself as one. The stereotype that I have experienced the most is that all Mexicans are unintelligent delinquents. The stereotype of Mexicans being unintelligent and lazy was influenced by the media. Media sources in our lives skew the way we judge people. This stereotype may be taken lightly by everyone who iterates it but what is not taken into account is the effect this stereotype has in the community for those of us that are Mexican. It has a negative impact on my community, I noticed that the negative effect of this stereotype starts by influencing a couple of individuals and then expands to the community as a whole. The stereotype that Mexicans are these unintelligent delinquents gets planted in our heads at a young age and that affects the way some of

“Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.” (Loretta Lynch). What are stereotypes; they are oversimplified opinions of a person/group that is based on culture, race, personality, and interests. Now, who are those who struggle the most with stereotypes? The answer is rather simple: high schoolers. I firmly state, that stereotypes, among all things, shouldn’t be an extra burden in the life of teenagers, especially those already dealing with other problems.

Stereotypes are widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular person or thing. Racial stereotypes are when you mentally exaggerate a racial group that we hold automatically, not as an individual. We develop stereotypes through our cognitive scheme, which we know for categorization, to make the world more predictable. Just like the worldly opposites, there are negative and positive stereotypes for African Americans. Some negative stereotypes are that black people are criminals or affiliated with drugs. And some positive stereotypes are black people are good singers or really great athletes. The victim(s) of the stereotype takes the steps to counter the bias opinion about themselves. In the series of questions asked, the determination of whether one's bias opinion is true and the group own up to that stereotype to make it true. Or one actually creating the stereotype for their group which is pointed out by another group. These questions were asked towards white and black members of Argo Community High School. White Response (WR) and Black Response (BR) is how the determination will be evaluated, to infer a theory as an general answer.

Many people have an oversimplified and erroneous view of a certain group of people. Stereotypes are typically associated with having negative connotations of a particular group of people. In many occasions, positive qualities of the group are overlooked and they are instead categorized by social norms created by stereotypes. Stereotyping affects everyone, whether it is through the discrimination of age, race, gender

Stereotyping is a commonly encountered occurrence at schools and in our daily lives. Stereotyping is when someone believes something about you or treats you differently based on a popular belief. There are three common stereotypes that RMHS students experience or are affected by. They are all related to race and ethnicities of students. Mexicans are lazy, must play soccer and must not be good at school. White people must love Starbucks, must be dumb blondes, and are racist. Black people must be lazy and not good at school. These are just a few of the many stereotypes students face on a daily basis. I believe that these stereotypes have a negative effect on teens because they bring down performance in school and outside of school. We got this

In everyday life Stereotypes are used, they are directed towards ethnicity, gender, and education. “In ethnicity, we have the ideas that each race is a certain way” (Aronson. The impact of stereotypes). Here are a couple of examples for blacks, they all can run fast, and that they are all about the welfare system. “For Hispanics they are stereotyped as being crazy, loud, lazy, drug dealers, illegal immigrants, and slutty” (Typical stereotypes of Hispanics). The stereotypes of ethnicity is causing an uproar of students in school. At school if you have a stereotype it is shown that students stick with it, and do not change their mind. Another way we stereotype in school is through gender. Gender stereotyping comes down to just that, boys and girls. “Of all stereotyping, gender is the most pervasive in American life” (Calvanese. Investigation gender stereotypes). In education, we see girls as being better at reading and writing than boys. Another example is that “guys do not become nurses, and women do” (Ehrlich, Stereotype within). We see gender stereotypes in education because we see certain classes for males such as science, economics, history and math and for females cooking, sewing,

Stereotypes affect people in many different ways. There are two sides to stereotypes, the victims and there aggressors. Unfortunately, we all have been a victim of stereotypes even with out us knowing it. Stereotypes hurt, but individuals handle the problem differently some feel belittled or embarrassed. Many victims of stereotypes can cause people to lose confidents in there self and many others in a psychological way, which can damage social and personal development. Kids that are victims of stereotypes are affected the worsted. Not only are the kids emotionally damaged the victim them selves can turn into the aggressor and stereotype others. The aggressors in many cases are individuals that have been victims of stereotypes, or brought up in a household or environment where people are constantly stereotyping other. People brought up in that kind of situation my stereotype others cause that is all they have come to know. Some refer to this person as ignorant, which is a harsh but accurate assumption. The definition of ignorance is the lack of logic. Ignorance is the main cause for people stereotyping others. There have been many discussions on how to get ride of stereotypes. My idea is to put a culture class in junior high or high schools and make it a mandatory class. Now if this were to happen it would compel students to study and understand cultures

Asian students do not always have positive impacts from positive stereotypes because they are stressed out and lose motivations when they do not meet the high expectations. People more likely doubt Black students’ intelligence or are indifferent whether they need help or not because they unconsciously think that Black students do not have potential. These different types of stereotypes make both Asian American students and Black students feel unworthy and not valuable. These feelings directly lead them to fail or do poorly at school. Especially, stereotypes have negative impacts on the development of the young students who are still in the process of identifying themselves or their egos and

The main population accused of stereotyping is teenagers; they are seen as rude and judgmental. For example, in high school the people are divided into groups by how they dress and whom they hang out with. There are the skaters, freaks, preps, snobs, cheerleaders, jocks and nerds. No one person set up

In my english honor class we have been studying and reading articles about stereotypes and how to deal with

The presences of stereotypes are overwhelming and are developed by both the environment a subject is raised in and their family. Stereotypes, which are pervasive throughout different societies, become intertwined in the collective values of the society as justification for all forms of social, economic, and political inequality among groups (Devine and Elliot 2000;Kaplan 2004; Operario and Fiske 2004). As people become more exposed to stereotypes they start to become a permanent part of a person’s life, they begin to stereotype themselves almost always involuntarily.