...Stereotypes "Blondes are not smart"; "All Muslims are terrorists"; "In Russia, people live with bears and only drink vodka." Everyone probably heard these sentences and in our society they are known as stereotypes. The concept of "stereotype" was born in the 20s of last century. It was introduced into the scientific literature by the American scientist W. Lippmann, who characterized the stereotype as a small "picture of the world" that a person stores in the brain in order to save the effort that is required to perceive more complex situations. What are the stereotypes based on? In order not to do “ unnecessary” thinking process, people use well-known stereotypes. Sometimes they find their confirmation in the observation of people and then...
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...Distinguishing Stereotypes and Attitudes: Compare and contrast these concepts, using scholarly material to support your answer rather than stating your opinion. What exactly does "stereotype" mean?"A cognitive representation of a group. They are often framed in terms of "traits" which are characteristics that we expect members of certain groups to possess. A good example would be that all pit bulls are vicious killers, but that is just not true, because one dog is vicious doesn't mean that all are are vicious killers. Another stereotype would be that all Toyota trucks are lemons because you owned a Toyota truck and it was a lemon, doesn't mean that all Toyota trucks are lemons. As you can see, a stereotype reflects a negative attachment to a specific group, not taking into consideration the full attributes of the entire group, or maybe one individual who might have specific traits....
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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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...even the powerful or pure can be stereotyped by another person or group. What do I want my readers to believe? It’s important that my readers understand the effects that stereotyping can have and to give information that may pay it forward by stopping stereotyping from happening now, which may help prevent it in the future. What do they need to know? I believe that many people do not understand the impact stereotyping can have on an individual. Negative stereotyping may stop someone from doing something because of the thoughts and stereotypes of others. It affects an individual’s self-esteem and can even create additional stereotypes in their mind of people who stereotyped them. It’s truly a vicious cycle. There are several types of stereotypes consisting of: strong, athletic, provider, unemotional, superior to women etc. Why should they care? In today’s society there are millions of Americans and different cultures who struggle with stereotypes. It affects their children and their children’s children. It can affect a person’s decision on what job they can get, where they should live, etc. Stereotyping is no small matter. Step 8 *...
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...Stereotype Paper Stereotyping can be defined as “a conventional, formulaic, and over simplified conception, opinion, or image; one that is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type”. (Herbert, 2008) Originally, a stereotype was a metal plate involved in the printing process. Once it was struck with an image, the imprint became permanent. Stereotyping is generally associated with prejudicial, erroneous, or misleading view of social groups not anchored in direct experience. (Holmberg, 2010) For this reason, it is generally thought that stereotyping is negative, and that it has widespread harmful effects. It can be noted that nearly all humans participate in a certain amount of stereotyping, whether it be from thoughts or values passed down to them through the generations, or views they’ve come to by their own thought process. One particular stereotype that I’ve observed being perpetuated in my own family is regarding gender roles. It is generally accepted in my ex- husband’s family that traditional gender roles should be observed (a woman’s place is in the home and that men should be the sole providers for the family etc.) The boys are raised learning to hunt and shoot guns and are strongly encouraged to participate in sporting activities in school. For the most part, young girls are strictly encouraged to participate in “girly” activities and are not encouraged to join sporting teams or do any athletic activity. In fact, my daughter was even...
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...NOTE: This paper is just to get an idea about the assignment. Please site your sources. DO NOT copy and paste my paper. This was a TEAM assignment. Organizational Culture: Macy’s Team Member: A, B, & C PSY/450 June 8, 2015 Dr. Rachael Dilts Organizational Culture: Macy’s Organizational culture is defined as an organization’s values, behaviors, expectations, experiences, and philosophy. The main idea of organizational culture is what behavior and values contribute to the organization’s social and psychological environment. Organizational culture is also known as corporate culture and is shown by how the organization treats its employees, customers, and the community. It also is shown through the way the company conducts business. Organizational culture success can be measured by a company’s productivity and performance. Successful organizational culture provides guidelines for service, product quality, and safety. Success can also be seen through attendance and punctuality of employees. Every organization has a unique culture, and if that culture is not successful, it is hard to change ("Organizational Culture", 2015). Macy’s: The Company Macy’s was founded by Rowland Hussey Macy in 1859 and was nothing but a single dry goods store in New York City. Over the years, Macy’s has grown to be one of the nation’s top retailers in fashion and affordable luxury. Macy’s attributes its success to its employees. Macy’s has many successes including; being the first...
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...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 reaction is to gets closer to her husband by taking his arm. The two African American men notice this, one man says to the other something about her action and how it is typical for a white, affluent woman to do such a thing because she thinks the men are going to do something to her. The initial fear and panic the D.A’s wife...
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...------------------------------------------------- Final Paper Assignment ------------------------------------------------- ROUGH DRAFT In television, and almost every other medium the media uses today, there’s a fine line between promoting and properly integrating diversity, and exploiting it. In this paper, I will be critically analyzing the hit television show, Lost, and how in leans more towards exploitation because of its incorporation of token characters from different races and genders, which hurts more than helps our society, particularly American society, in its goal of expelling racism and sexism. The racial and gender stereotypes displayed in the hit television show Lost contribute negatively to society and its attempt to expel racism and sexism. By having characters that blatantly follow both racial and gendered stereotypes broadcasted on one of the most popular American television shows, it communicates to its viewers that their own stereotypical views on different races and cultures are inherently true and further cement that view point into the American mindset. If you’ve never seen the television series Lost, then it’s safe to say you’re lost. Although the series has long come to a close, when it was being aired, it was one of the most talked about shows on television. The one thing people didn’t seem to notice, and neither did I until I looked at it with a very critical eye, is that a large amount of the characters on the show fit almost perfectly into the stereotypes of their particular race...
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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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...Reflection Paper The way these stereotypes affected the view of gender roles in our society is that the media portray men and women as something that they aren’t. A lot of times as a society we play into these stereotypes by believing that they are a part of who we are when truly we aren’t that way at all. In those videos men are portrayed as active, adventurous, in charge and muscular as you can see the emphasis is placed on a character’s abilities and women are portrayed as passive, less competent and more domestic and the emphasis is placed upon a character’s appearance. Advertisers have created a sort of taboo where men are to be one way and women are to be another way or vice versa. We (meaning the public) are taught to accept a set of beliefs without questioning them. Stereotyping is something that people do on a regular basic by grouping people in categories such as men being the masculine type that emphasizes strength, dominance, competition, and logical thinking. While as women are put in the Feminine category that emphasizes expressive, nurturing behavior, empathy and emotional expressiveness; a focus on relationships and on maintaining them; an interest in bearing and raising children; and attentiveness to appearance. When in relativity not all men or women are this way for reason of how and where they were raised. Just because someone stereotyped you and categorized as being a certain way does not mean that you in no to believe you are this way. By stereotyping...
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...12 Angry Men Writing Assignment Final Exam Project Due: ________________________________________ (EDMODO) You will see a lot of psychological phenomena exhibited in the movie 12 Angry Men. Many of these phenomena are listed in the boxes on the next page. Your task for this assignment is to watch the movie, take note of these various psychological phenomena, and then write a cohesive 2-3 page paper discussing these themes. In writing your paper you must pick at least 5 separate incidences from the movie. For each incidence, describe how it relates to psychological phenomenon. Be sure to use concepts from across all of psychology. Do NOT, for example, just pick examples from social psychology (such as conformity and stereotyping); use examples from cognition, memory, sensation, and perception, etc. as well. In order to construct a cohesive essay, you should structure your discussion of the 4 incidences around a central area. That is, your paper needs to be more than just a loose collection of summary points. Consider how you can tie all the incidences together around a central psychological idea. * Behavior is determined by multiple causes: For any complex human behavior, multiple reasons exist as to why that behavior was done. For example, consider your study behavior. It is determined by intelligence, memory and attentional constraints, and social factors. * Behavior is shaped by cultural heritage: At several points in the semester we discussed how the people...
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...have regarding other group members. On the other hand, stereotypes can be defined as beliefs regarding a group including a description of an individual, their abilities as well as their behaviour. Therefore, stereotypes cognitively represent how people are similar to other and their differences towards other groups. ‘Individuals can be aware of stereotypes and have cognitive representations of their beliefs without endorsing such stereotypes, without prejudice feelings as well as without having a belief that stereotypes can affect their behaviour and judgement’ (Charnley et al 2009: 195). Stereotyping as well as prejudice are considered as an adaptive processes product, which simplifies complex world towards enabling individuals to apply cognitive resources towards various tasks. Nevertheless, despite the function served by cognitively adaptive processes by use of mental shortcuts to make decisions regarding other people can result in serious negative outcomes (Smith 2008). The horrifying mistreatment of people in history including that of African American, homosexuals, people with disabilities, has been the main impulsion for prejudice as well as stereotypes study. Therefore, the original experiments and ideas are concerned with negative attitudes, conscious as well as discriminatory behaviors. Nevertheless, due to changes that have occurred on prejudice and stereotypes at the social level, the materialization of stereotypes, as well as prejudice, have also transformed. Towards...
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...RUNNING HEADER: Stereotypes 1 Stereotypes Throughout My Life John Doe PHI Dr. Dolittle 6-6-2013 Stereotypes 2 Stereotypes Throughout My Life Stereotyping has always been a part of human nature. Stereotyping is preconceived opinion of a person or group of people based on an oversimplified conception, opinion, or image. The reasons for this belief are numerous ranging from self preservation to prejudice. For instance, if someone encounters an individual wearing gang colors and gang related attire the perspective of that person might be that they are dangerous, involved in illegal activity, or an outcast from main stream society. In reality, this person may only be wearing matching colored sports team clothing to show support of their favorite team. Regardless of the reason for stereotyping, the fact remains that it “has a lasting negative impact on those who experience it.” (Kemick, 2011). This paper will prove that military service, level of education, and race can have negative impacts on those who experience it. People who serve in the military are often stereotyped by those who have not served in the military with certain characteristics. The characteristics range from being rigid, non-conformist, conservative, obsessive compulsive, controlling, aggressive, stern, domineering, and even having the propensity to use force to solve a problem. This belief is often held because of the stringent training that all military...
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...Racism and Power A Formal Research Paper on Racism HSP-3UI-03 Jenna Yates 06/16/2014 -1- Introduction Over the generations, there have been horrific examples of racism around the globe. The holocaust, the slave trade and Apartheid in South Africa are all examples of appalling events throughout history that display racism. In addition to these extreme examples, racism exists on a smaller scale in peoples day to day lives. For example, there are people who face certain disadvantages, like being denied employment, denied an apartment or denied a friendship all because of their race. While there is definitely a movement to eradicate racist actions and beliefs, they still exist. Despite education and a history of horrible experiences with racism, it is still a huge issue in our culture and in our environment. This is so, because there is always a group who benefits from racism and it is hard to let this power and privileges go. Racism has been an effective tool for those in a position of power and privilege to maintain their status, income, recourses, the ability to make decisions, etc. Racism empowers some and disempowers others. Even though we have seen the down side of racism, it is something we continue to repeat from country to country and decade to decade because we know it works to maintain power. Despite all the advances society has seen in research, knowledge and technology, mankind has not been able to abolish racism. Therefore, in spite of our understanding...
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...Name Instructor Course Date Stereotypes in Mass Media Mass media has become a main source of popular culture in modern society. The media does not only entertain or feed information to the audience, but also transfers the beliefs, values and stereotypes of the society resulting to a change in the order of life in society (Wells 514). According to Althusser, families, schools and religions play a crucial role of ideological state apparatuses. Such institutions indoctrinate and transfer the ideologies of society into the minds of people in the society in order to control them. However, in modern society, the media is turning out to be yet another apparatus for controlling the minds of people. To most people, the pieces of art such as movies, magazines, documentaries and music in the media seem unique. However, all these products are no different from each other. The content in the media reflects the life of people in such a way that people would comprehend. Such a reflection occurs through reproduction of stereotypes which impacts profoundly on life in society (Wells 514). This paper examines the stereotypes mass media in more detail by considering the works of Betye Saar, the use of the concept in advertising and images in popular culture such as Aunt Jemima among others. The Liberation of Aunt Jemima Betye Saar is one of the few women who challenged the male artists’ dominance in the museum and gallery spaces in the 1970s. Some organizations such...
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