Stereotype

Stereotype

Introduction

Stereotype is the construction of thought, including a cognitive component (usually simplified), emotional and behavioral, including some false belief about various phenomena, including other groups social. A stereotype can be adopted by the entity as a result of our own observations, taking over the views of other people, and patterns provided by the public , may be the result of emotional processes (for example the transfer of aggression). Stereotypes can be negative, neutral or positive, although it is most common negative images. The assignment discusses three stereotypes. It will explore stereotypes and highlight the implications of these stereotypes on the social and individual level. Furthermore, the discussion will also identify each individual stereotype and present the rationale behind it.

Discussion

Creating stereotypes is a spontaneous human tendency, and such a simplification of the media are all human ideas about the world around them, both nature and society. This is due to inter alia, by such means to organize reality, as the categorization, generalization, cognitive schema. I used to believe in the stereotype that policemen eat an extreme quantity of donuts and coffee. It was my understanding that policemen are usually lazy most of the time which is why they need to consume coffee to stay awake. The stereotype, in my case, owes itself to the fact that quite a few depictions of policemen in the electronic media have shown policemen consuming coffee and donuts. For instance, the policemen in the Simpsons sometimes consume coffee and donuts. Similarly, movies often show donut shops to be full of policemen.

The support for my argument came from movies in which policemen were consuming donuts while on stakeouts. Classic movies such as Beverly Hills Cop show policemen consuming coffee during stakeouts. It merits notice at this point that even though other characters in electronic media also consume coffee, ...