...In the beginning of my childhood everything seemed pretty normal. I grew up in a two parent household with one older brother and one younger sister. Until one day, I noticed I was quite different from my siblings. I was not as talkative as they were or as friendly, but my mother told me that I have always been a quiet little girl, who did not reach out to anyone besides her. I personally did not think anything of it, but family members made it known that I was different. I became the outcast of the family, when people found out I had a learning disability that caused great shame to my self-esteem. I refused to identify as someone with a learning disability because I know the stereotype that goes along with the title. I did not want people thinking...
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...the effect that gender roles have on students, teachers and classrooms. Gender Roles in Teaching Try to think back to childhood, and ask the question how many male teachers did I have? The response to this is predominately low according to the National Education Association, who state that males only make up twenty-five percent of teachers today. It’s important for children to have teachers who are positive role models. Children benefit from having access to both male and female mentors throughout their early childhood education and school years. (Martin 2005). Currently, men make up only twenty-five percent of the elementary teaching workforce and the number of men teaching in early childhood services is even smaller. The NEA also states that at the secondary level, forty-five percent of teachers are male. It is apparent that these sectors of education need more male teachers to address this imbalance and give children the opportunity to learn from quality teachers of both genders. Children at all levels – early childhood, elementary and secondary, need positive role models so that they can become successful adults. Some of the factors that disinterest males from entering the teaching profession are: stereotyping, low pay, and low status. The general perception that men who desire to teach early childhood education or in elementary schools have something wrong with them is largely responsible for the stereotyping concern. Males are often regarded...
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...University of Phoenix Material Leslie Maxwell kennasnana@email.phoenix.edu May 13, 2012 Appendix B Part I Define the following terms: Term Definition Stereotypes Stereotypes are oversimplified beliefs in a particular group of people. Stereotypes are usually based on race, ethnicity, or gender. Someone that is judged by their membership in a group instead of on their own individual differences. Prejudice An opinion of belief learned from environmental factors such as friends, relatives, and mass media. Though there are many theories about prejudices and how they are created and approached, most believe that prejudices are taught from a very young age. Labeling theory The labeling theory is the belief that the view of deviance according to which being labeled as a "deviant" leads a person to engage in deviant behavior. The labeling theory explains why people’s behavior clashes with social norms. A person that is labeled may incorporate the label into his/her self-concept. 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 All African Americans are good at sports. All Americans are lazy and obese. All Mexicans are illegal aliens. Ethnicity All Arabs or Muslims are terrorists. All Jews are greedy. All Irish...
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...around the lives of four elderly women living in Miami during the 1980s. As I am watching, I for the first time notice the four "elderly" women depicted in the show all defy the general concepts of ageing as well as ageing stereotypes. The female characters all are very healthy, fashionable, energetic, social, employed and have active love lives. This portrayal is a great contrast from the depiction of the grumpy, unhealthy, introverted and frail perceptions modern media and society associates with the elderly. This makes me wonder,...
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...Novelist and writer, Sherman Alexie, in his narrative essay, “Superman and Me,” talks about the stereotypes of Indians and his efforts on combating those stereotypes. Throughout his essay, Alexie uses parallelism, repetition, and metaphors to emphasize important ideas, stress how hard he tried to save his life and other Indians’ lives, and make the readers feel emotion. In paragraphs seven and eight, Alexie uses parallelism and repetition to emphasize important ideas and stress how hard he tried to save his and other lives. His accounts of repetition are mostly shown throughout paragraph seven. In this paragraph, he constantly starts sentences with the words “I read.” He also writes about these instances of reading in separate sentences, instead...
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...Middle Childhood Growing up, I had to learn to be more mature than what my age depicted. I was adept at taking care of not only myself but my three younger brothers; being assigned this role around the "middle childhood" age was challenging, causing me to acquire the development for new capabilities. My social development was not necessarily flourishing at this point in time, due to cumulative disruption in my home-life. This led up through my adolescence and even has a tendency to continually disrupt my thoughts through adulthood. Psychologically speaking, I wasn't necessarily a stable child; not having what I would define as "natural" sleeping patterns, I was always overly-emotional and testy with everyone that I met. --Throw in a dab of coyness, and that pretty much sums up my middle childhood period! My thought process and my demeanor seem to strive off of this period of my life, good and bad....
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...Not everyone successful had an easy academic life, even the millionaires or billionaire entrepreneurs were not perfect in school. Everywhere in the world are stereotypes and misconceptions and people using them and if the person has ever said no the individual is lying. Stereotypes are used to categorize a person or a group of people to widely believe a mental picture of what is being said. In some cases, stereotypes are true, but can also be an exaggerated truth. When a stereotype is used the people infer a person has whole range of characteristics and abilities and all this is being assumed towards members of a group. A misconception in the other hand is formed by the stereotypical assumptions of a person just for being part of a certain group or community. The reason why the world has these stereotypes and misconceptions is because...
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...All black men are treated with racism in bell hook’s childhood time period. They were known as a threat. During the hook’s childhood, black families send the girl children to schools and boys children to find the work. Black males are considered dumb until they come in their fifties, because since childhood they all are illiterate, always looking for a work. The origins of these stereotypes were racial segregation, discrimination, and oppression of black males. They were aware of these stereotypes could be life-threatening. She was thinking of organizing a Mass-based literacy programs, especially to those black men who are unemployed and don't get opportunity. The organization should educate them and preparing themselves to stand by their own and compete in real world. I am totally agree on her argument. In short we have to provide opportunity to prove themselves and let them be self-determined and create positive atmosphere around them where they can show their abilities. According to me, her positive attitude shows...
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...Hi Cortney, I loved reading your post. I do know if you have noticed the role that Latinas play in Hollywood. Latinas have been stereotyped in TV shows, movies and plays as maids, housekeepers, nannies or immigrants. One clear example is Lupe Ontiveros, the nannie of the 80’s classic film named The Goonies. The actress Lupe Ontiveros, mentioned on the article “Lupe Ontiveros Played A Maid 150 Times, Wanted To Break Free Of The Stereotype (VIDEO)” that she had played the role of maid for one hundred fifty times and she wanted to break that stereotype (Benedetti, 2013). A more contemporary example is Jennifer Lopez on her role of maid in Maid in Manhattan. I am glad that this stereotype is decreasing because Latinas are having the opportunity...
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...filled out I calculated the averages of the responses for the boy and girl and came up with the following information. I found many differences between the ratings of the surveys that I gave out. The people who had “Robert” selected more masculine traits for him such as firm, hardy, and strong. For the people who had “Rachel” gave her more feminine traits such as soft, delicate, and beautiful. For the traits that could be either masculine or feminine, like quiet or loud, easy or difficult, happy or sad, just really depended on the judgment of the people who took the survey. Since it was the same picture for both the male and the female the neutral traits were generally the same for both sexes. I feel that the judgment of the person’s stereotype depended on how that person was raised. These results are the results that I thought would happen which help to prove that most...
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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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...Caitlyn, an alter inside of Carol Broad is the one who says this. Caitlyn explains the childhood of Carol as far from idyllic. Her childhood years consisted of trauma, anxiety and heath problems which resulted in dissociating from what was happening. This developed the many alter that now make up Carol. She explains how even though there were some very gloomy and bad days, not every day was like that. While having the love of their dad and marrying their husband Philip and having three children they felt normal at times. They enjoyed a happy life. (Bowlby, Briggs) Even though they were admitted into a psych ward more than once, none of Carols alter were seen as violent and uncontrollable. There were some hard times for them with depression setting in, but it was never to the extent that the media would claim it to be. It took years before the doctors could...
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...Anna Quindlen had children so she could watch lightning bugs with them, or so she wants you to think. By uses lightning bugs as a symbol of childhood innocence; she wants “to stand at a window with a child and show him the lightning bugs and have him say, ‘ Mommy, it’s magic.’” This symbol is her example of how we reduce the complexities that exist everyday into oversimplified symbols or stereotypes. In order to further her point, she also uses an anecdote of “a survey in a women’s magazine” which questions why the reader has kids, but there are only five options. The complex decision of bearing children simplified to only five choices. Using a rhetorical question, she introduces her deeper purpose officially. This reduces any hostility...
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...In the United States, the black man has become an endangered species. When we look at the death and incarceration rates each year we are losing young black men to the system or society's stereotypes. The plethora of challenges the African American male faces cannot be overlooked in today's society. When we look at history and the impact and the broad social consequences that have become the norm in society. Where young black men are not encouraged to follow their dreams or breaking barriers. “ Black boyhood is both the material childhood and social phenomenon of childhood for black boys under the age of 18 (Dumas and Nelson, 2016).” Public Imagination does not paint black boys as children who are entitled to discovery and play but as grown...
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...Influences of Childhood Development La Tesha Simpson PSY/600 Developmental Psychology July 15, 2013 Judy Pendleton, PsyD Influences of Childhood Development Children are impressionable and share the characteristics of a sponge in a sense, by means of picking up a spill and letting it ooze out of their personality or behavior. Children imitate most of what they see and hear whether negative or positive. Imitating is learning and learning is form of development. Everyone and everything can influence the choices children make during childhood. The purpose of this paper is to investigate influences of childhood development. Development of any kind during childhood can have life altering factors. Some of those factors will include career development starting during early childhood, economic resources in child development, and socioeconomic status and child development. This investigation will demonstrate whether the influences are healthy or unhealthy development during childhood. Career Development during Childhood Parents and professional role models may influence children in their career choice. For example, if a parent is a doctor a child may find that exciting and want to follow the footsteps of the parent. Perhaps, the child learns how police officers and fire fighters give back to the community and want to do the same. Career development start during childhood and covers the course of life (Porfeli & Lee, 2012). Researchers show how an individual establishes...
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