...Lesson 14, #3: Describe 3 common stereotypes of old and younger people. Why do they exist? When I think of stereotypes, the first that comes to mind that both elderly and young share is that they can’t drive. Younger people are known for texting while driving, or having a lead foot, driving recklessly. On the flip side older people are considered slow drives and unaware of their surroundings. All of the descriptions on describing how both young and old drive, leads to car accidents. I do believe that this actually is a fairly accurate stereotype. Younger people have a false assurance that they can drive over the speed limit, text and jam out to really loud music and that nothing can hurt them. When new drivers get this false confidence in driving it leads to car accidents, which is quite common, and what gives teens/younger drivers a bad reputation. Not all young people are bad drivers, but the ones who are give the group as a whole that stereotype. Same goes for elderly drivers. I always say that “old folks don’t know how to drive” I sum up all older drivers as a whole from past experiences with driving behind a really slow driver that was older, and from being a passenger in a car with my own grandma who almost hit ten things in five minutes. When I compare all my grandparents three of them are great drivers, but my having awful experiences with driving with my grandma who hit everything, makes me sum up all older people as a whole and stating they are bad drivers, which...
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...artistic aspects to examine when analyzing and critiquing any film. In 2004 Paul Haggis wrote and directed the award winning drama Crash about various intertwining experiences involving racial relations and the socioeconomic status levels of the diverse cast of characters. This film addresses how humans being deal with real life circumstances and addresses how racial stereotypes and prejudices impact our society by causing a separation of customs, ignoring human and civil rights, and demonstrating how racism can cause moral, cultural and economical suffering. This detailed essay will address the cinematic elements employed throughout the movie, and provide a critical analysis on the various components and techniques used to create this compelling and powerful film. Crash is a movie that involves several different stories and plots that all manage to somehow connect the characters to each other in a series of events that take place during two days in California. America’s ever-growing melting pot is distinctly represented in the film as the audience is introduced to a black LAPD detective, two black mischievous car thieves, a white district attorney and his prejudice wife, a white racist beat cop and his neophyte partner, a black Hollywood director and his wife, an irate Persian shop owner and his family, and a blue-collar Hispanic man and his young impressionable daughter. The characters unrelated yet intertwining stories was a very unique and effective technique used to tell...
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...movie titled “Crash” one of the three sociological perspectives can be observed in this movie regarding to equality and life in America. Set in Los Angeles, this movie probed social and cultural stereotypes, race and social biases, and the conflict perspective that often ensues as a result. The blatant manner in which these sociological issues are revealed is often startling for the viewer, but the shocking nature is intentional in order to promote self-examination and reflection. The conflict perspective is presented in this movie dons on tension between groups over power or the allocation of resources, including housing, money, access to services and political representation. This movie uses tension to advance the story line of each character forcing them into positions of conflict as well as dependence, and emphasizes the status of equality in America. In order to progress to a more equal society it is essential that Americans examine the biases presented in the movie Crash, especially those most often seen in modern society such as stereotyping, hate crimes, color blind racism and ethnocentrism. Stereotypes are defined as unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group. From the opening scene the movie depicts a car crash involving two police detectives and an Asian woman. The stereotyping begins immediately when the Asian woman tells the police officer writing the traffic report that Mexicans don’t know...
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...Associate Program Material Stereotypes and Prejudice Worksheet Please complete the following exercises, remembering that you are in an academic setting and should remain unbiased, considerate, and professional when completing this worksheet. Part I Select three of the identity categories below and name or describe at least 3 related stereotypes for each: • Race • Ethnicity • Religion • Gender • Sexual orientation • Age • Disability |Category |Stereotype 1 |Stereotype 2 |Stereotype 3 | |Race |African Americans are better at |African American men are well |Caucasians have no rhythm and | | |sports. |endowed |cannot dance. | |Gender |Women are not as strong as men. |Women are not politicians. |Women are supposed to be | | | | |submissive and do as they are | | | | |told. | |Disability |People with disabilities cannot |Having a mental disability means |People with disabilities are | ...
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...2013 Black Identity and Culture Prof. W. P. Holbrook S116 Exploring the Views of Marriage and Family in African American Films, Stereotypes and TV Shows Good Times. The Jeffersons. The Cosby Show. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The list goes on; all of these shows are viewed as classics and are some of the most highest-rated television programs of all-time. Another commonality amongst these shows is that they all center around African American main characters and or families. Many of these shows dealt with the many problems the African American community faces. While African Americans are viewed in a mostly positive light, throughout television history many stereotypes were reoccurring on popular TV shows, movies and in the media. Although improved, the idea of stereotypical characters is still prevalent in modern society. One character that comes to mind immediately is Sheneneh from the hit TV show Martin. She was a loud-mouthed hair stylist, who was the stereotypical face of a ghetto woman in Detroit. In an episode that aired in 1997 titled, “Martin: Power to the People’s Court”, Sheneneh gets into a car accident and she makes the comment “I don’t [have any car insurance], Tommy, and now I ain’t goin’ to be able to get none is what I’m tryna tell you!” This reinforced the stereotype that African American women drive around without car insurance. Sheneneh isn’t alone when it comes to these types of characters; in the Barbershop film series there was Eddie the...
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...University of Phoenix Material Appendix B Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Stereotypes |Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not take individual differences into| | |account. | |Prejudice | a negative attitude toward an entire category of people. | |Labeling theory |Is the view of deviance to which being labeled as a “deviant” leads a person to engage in deviant | | |behavior. | Part II Select three of the identity categories below and name or describe at least 3 related stereotypes for each: • Race • Ethnicity • Religion • Gender • Sexual orientation • Age • Disability |Category |Stereotype 1 |Stereotype 2 |Stereotype 3 | |Race |Black people love chicken |White people get better jobs |All Arabs and Muslims are | | | |than black people ...
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...November 2013 Race is Not a Factor in Inadequacy Race in America today can be directly based off stereotypes. A person’s race is as irrelevant as the car they drive. Yet theses irrelevant things tell us something. It gives us a view on how better he or she is compared to one another. The way it is in our society and generation; a superior car equals a superior person. This is obviously not a biological reason, yet this is a way we divide ourselves as individuals. This is very comparable to the "micro-level" of racism mentioned in the writings of Michael Omi and Howard Winant, which separates two people by a noticeable factor (Omi 12). Race has nothing to do with my or anyone else abilities or intelligence. In our society we build descriptions of an entire group of individuals that demonstrate a certain qualities of that separates one group from others. Our society defines these groups as stereotypes. When we glance at a group of people that stand out from social norms, we place them into another class. The motive is to not load ourselves with this excess of information. It is difficult to bear in mind everyone's individuality. This is why we have stereotypes. However, there are times when put a mark of superiority or inferiority onto another stereotype. We critic these stereotypes, and we do not distinguish the individuals in their group. That is how we view our stereotypes. Racism is more or less the exact same thing. When we see an African American, our view of them is a...
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...Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Stereotypes |unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not take individual differences into| | |account | |Prejudice |A unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason. | | | | |Labeling theory |Is the view of deviance according to which being labeled as a "deviant" leads a person to engage in | | |deviant behavior. | Part II Select three of the identity categories below and name or describe at least 3 related stereotypes for each: • Ethnicity • Religion • Gender • Sexual orientation • Age • Disability |Category |Stereotype 1 |Stereotype 2 |Stereotype 3 | |Race |Color |Language |looks | |Sexual orientation...
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...Crash Misty Ward University of Phoenix August 15, 2009 The movie Crash interweaves several stories during a 36 hour period in Los Angeles involving a variety of characters, an up and coming police detective with a two time felon for a brother and a drugged addicted mother, two car thieves that constantly discuss race and society, the white district attorney and his typical stay at home wife, a white veteran cop who does not hide his racist feelings from his young non racist partner. Also in the movie is a successful Hollywood director who coming home from a party with his wife crass paths with the white racist cop, a Persian-immigrant father who buys a gun to protect his store, a hardworking Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter trying to escape a dangerous neighborhood. Through what could be considered daily coincidental interactions, the movie seeks to describe and examine not only racial tensions, but the stereotyping that each ethnic group faces on a daily basis. Crash address the various types of diversity in America by illustrating basic stereotypes of each character’s cultural background for which they represent. The movie also address how society handle racism on a daily basis through interaction with each other, and how the view various races. For example the white district attorney and his wife were walking down the street. At the same time two African American men were walking towards them When the D.A’s wife sees them walking towards them, her immediate...
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...As demonstrated by the protagonist in the short story “Identities” by W.D Valgardson, the act of believing in a stereotype and bias affects the first impression a person receives when meeting someone. Whether it's just guessing where they are from or assuming their social class, ordinarily it mainly can be a preferred way of looking at almost anything or anyone. This can limit how anyone will resolve a problem or issue. Being prejudice normally will occur from evaluating an individual's physical appearance, such as; facial expressions, their tone of voice, how they dress and body language are some ways people judge and get a first impression. In the story there is an officer who spotted the main character that has been on the run, and unfortunately...
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...The American drama film, “Crash”, which is co-written, produced and directed by Paul Haggis, highlights many social psychology concepts. One of such concepts is stereotypes. Stereotypes as term by Baron, Branscombe and Bryne (2006), refer to the beliefs about social groups in terms of the traits or characteristics that they are deemed to share. Stereotypes are cognitive frameworks that influence the processing of social information (p.571). In the movie, stereotypes which are distinctively directed towards race are evident. The Whites and Persians all created stereotypes based on race; thus, the aim of the paper is to discuss how this social psychology concept is illustrated in the movie. Firstly, stereotype is evident in the scene where the Persian man (Farhad), along with his daughter, visits a shop with the intention of purchasing a firearm. The owner of the shop, a white Caucasian, refuses to sell the Farhad the gun and assumes he is an Arab. The shop owner goes as far as to theorize that Farhad may even be a terrorist; this is evident when the shop owner states: “Yo Osama, play the jihad on your own time”. When Farhad tries to declare that he is Persian, he is thrown out of the store by the security. In this scene, Farhad is being stereotyped because of his accent and the fact that he does not speak English well, but in fact, Farhad is only interested in having a gun for his safety. In addition to the encounter with the shop owner at the gun store, Farhad is once again...
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...parents’ cars, the affects drinking alcohol and cell phone usage have on their driving and motor safety have been pummeled into their brains. However, the affects of other factors such as, stress and emotions have not been emphasized as clearly. According to an article on DMV.org, “feeling worried or annoyed, whether it is related to driving or not, can have the same negative impact as an intense cell phone conversations or the consumption of alcoholic dinks” (Davis). Allstate is a well-respected auto insurance company, which thrives upon accident forgiveness and keeping their customers protected through safety campaigns. In July, Allstate launched its “Mayhem” series of commercial advertisements. In these commercials, Mayhem is portrayed as a physical person causing unavoidable trouble to automotive owners, such as sidewalk distractions, extreme weather conditions, young pets, and teenage destruction. Mayhem overall advertises that turmoil is everywhere and, without raising rates, Allstate will protect their drivers from these unavoidable dangers when other insurance companies will not. Allstate effectively advertises its services by using a credible actor, who humorously addresses emotional parental topics, and entertainingly exaggerating the teenage girl stereotype in a familiar setting. In this specific commercial, Mayhem is portraying an exaggerated, distracted, and emotional teenager who is driving through a crowded parking lot and unknowingly sideswipes a parked car. The...
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...in Los Angeles. All the characters in the film are somehow inter-related to one another. A police detective who mother is strung out on drugs and has a brother who likes to kill, two car thieves, a white district attorney, a racist cop, a black Hollywood director, a full Persian descent father, and a Hispanic locksmith are all the characters in the film. This film has some sociological problems that occur everyday in the United States. One of the problems in our society is institutional discrimination. Institutional discrimination refers to the unfair, indirect treatment of an individual embedded in the operating procedures, policies, laws, or objectives of large organizations. This situation can be recognized as widespread because certain jobs are all over America and therefore they might perform the same type of discrimination to somebody. One example of this would be when the racist police and his younger co-worker pulled the successful Hollywood director and his wife over after just retrieving that somebody was car jacked. The Hollywood director was driving the same type of car that was reported stolen. However, the police operator gave the racist cop the stolen car license plate number so to pull these people over was no connection in their earlier call. It was the same exact car but had a different license plate number and the wrong description of people. He decided to pull the truck over anyway after he saw the Hollywood director wife bring her head up as if...
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...Introduction In today’s society we encounter many differences in the people around us. Whether based on culture, gender, ethnicity, or age these factors all have some stereotypes attached to them. In our paper, we will discuss stereotyping, both thoughtful and non-thoughtful. We will also address stereotyping in an organization. Our society can be split up into many various groups by gender, race, or even by traits. The world consists of both men and women, blacks and whites, Democrats and Republicans, all who live their own distinct way of life. “Stereotypes are qualities perceived to be associated with particular groups or categories of people (Schneider, 2005).” We stereotype other people all the time because of gender, race, color, and we usually do not even realize it. Stereotypes are so widespread and used so often that they seem to be a natural behavior for human beings. The purpose of this paper is to give a clear explanation on stereotyping. We will evaluate the cognitive (thoughtful/non-thoughtful) approach that suggest putting people into categories is necessary in the thought process that surely sets the presidents of stereotyping. In the last 20 years our society has experienced in explosion of research and theories in stereotyping. Most information has been learned from using the difference between relatively non-thoughtful and relatively thoughtful thinking processes (Weegner, Clark, & Petty). The present research shows both thoughtful and non-thoughtful thinking...
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...readings and lectures that you see playing out in this case. * Stereotype: A.- Definition: We can define this concept as “A perceptual and cognitive process in which specific behavioral traits are ascribed to individuals on the basis of their group membership”. (Cox, 1993) We can also define it as a rigid, exaggerated belief associated with a mental category, that can be more or less rational and that is a consequence from the complex environment and the lack of information that the one who consider it shows. In other words, it comes up to simplify the information and the environment. It is important to know that a stereotype result from differences in levels of contact of individuals with members of “outgroups”. In this way, the lower the contact the larger the tendency to evaluate them along fewer dimensions. It is also important to know that a stereotype does not have to be necessarily bad; traits associated with the group can be positive or negative. B.- Give specific examples in the case of where the concept plays out. The stereotype suggested here is the one of the “black criminal”. Unfortunately it is usually associated black people with criminals, or at least there is a thought about that there is a higher probability that a black to be a criminal than a white to be so. We can see how in the case Hope thought that Dillon was a criminal because he entered the parking lot piggybacking behind her car. Just in case Dillon was white, the reaction of Hope could have been...
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