Stereotypes in society and its consequences
Stereotypes are beliefs about the characteristics of a set of people about their belonging to a social category, generalizing and applying these characteristics to anyone, these are very present today, so that the Act Up and Tag groups alsoThey affect.
Stereotypes with prejudices or discrimination are usually confused, since they are related, but stereotypes are those that constitute the cognitive component of prejudice and discrimination, the behavioral component of it, so that everything is part of the prejudice. Based on these concepts we could also describe stereotypes about a group as a component of prejudice belonging to the cognitive part of an attitude.
In stereotypes there is a social and cultural consensus about the characteristics that form a stereotype, but not all people assign these characteristics to the same extent, but there are degrees of intensity with which this stereotyped belief is assumed, this is calledStereotypy. For example, in the Act UP group the greatest stereotype is that all members suffer from AIDS, and within AIDS the stereotype is that all are homosexual men, but these stereotypes the Church radicalizes them while other people in favor of the movement probably soften those thoseStereotypes.
The organization of stereotypes is based on schemes with beliefs and expectations about a specific group and its members, which constitute naive theories that guide our attitudes and behaviors towards them. The characteristics that form the scheme can be positive, negative or neutral, so stereotypes imply an assessment of the people to whom it is applied. For example, certain people will negatively value the stereotype of being homosexual, since they will seem bad, while other people will seem completely normal.
On the other hand, you can’t know how much reality reflect or are only biased generalizations. So in general, stereotypes are biased and little truthful images.
Stereotypes are learned, maintained and modified due to the socialization process, through social interaction and socializing agents such as family or school, and personal experiences, that is, in this case if the environment is homophobic isStereotypes are more likely to be created to homosexuals such as having a lot.
And the association process between some social categories and certain characteristics is derived from categorization. A consequence of this is that the members of the exogroups can be perceived as more homogeneous to each other, this is called exogrupal homogeneity.
Another bias of social categorization is the essentialism that is based on the fact that when people are classified in groups there is a tendency to perceive these categories as natural, so they are attributed essential characteristics to their group membership. For example, a cis-heterosexual person will see certain characteristics, such as makeup, in homosexual people as essential of that group.
Something interesting is that we tend to pay more attention to the information that confirms our expectations and for which our stereotypes, which prevents us from changing the mentality and looking beyond.
The measure of stereotypes evaluates their cultural content and value the degree of stereotypy of individuals. Being the content, the beliefs shared in a culture about a certain social group. But stereotypy measurement requires an analysis of how far each person supports the content of stereotypes. There are different measures. Among them is the list of adjectives, which finds out the content of stereotypes by adjudicating different adjectives to members of various social groups, the estimation of percentages, the diagnostic reason, which predicts the probability of assigning a certain characteristic more to one group than to another, the semantic differential and the Likert type scale.
Stereotypes fulfill different functions, which can be individual or psychological, or social. Individuals distinguish between cognitive function, associated with categorization, and motivational function, related to the defense and protection of the value system of each person. Social generate differences in the valuation of some groups compared to others, contribute to creating and maintaining an ideology to justify actions towards certain groups, help social control about how the members of a group should be and behave, and justify the system,such as the Church in this case, which maintain the ideology that homosexuality is unnatural and therefore justify hate actions towards them.
Something that also usually happens in the groups is the threat of the stereotype, which consists of giving worse due to Temer to confirm the negative stereotype formed about them.
The stereotype content model defends that the content of stereotypes varies depending on social changes. This model proposes that stereotyped beliefs can be grouped into two dimensions, competition or instrumental capacity, which includes characteristics related to intelligence, and cordiality, about aspects such as kindness or sympathy.
The content is also related to power and status, perceiving the greatest status groups as more competent and at the same time as colder, such as the FDA.
There are very widespread stereotypes that are gender stereotypes, which are beliefs about characteristics that have men and women for only belonging to one of these groups. Within this there are two dimensions, the female that is the expressive or communal, referring to the affective-emotional factors, and the masculine that is the instruments or agent, referred to productivity, autonomy and competition. The trait stereotypes are the personality characteristics that define different men and women. Like women are more sensitive and the strongest sentimentally. Role stereotypes include the functions considered appropriate according to gender, such as cooking for women and fixing things for men. The occupation would be for example a nurse woman and an engineer man. And as for physical characteristics, the woman thin and weak body and the strong man.
The same happens with the LGBTI collective, which have certain beliefs about characteristics that are only to belong to the collective. The trait stereotypes that would be included in this group would be for example that homosexual men are sensitive and weak, that lesbian women are strong and little polite, and that both men and bisexual women are promiscuous. The occupation stereotypes that we could observe would be, in manist or hairdresser homosexual. And of physical characteristics for example that homosexual men are very thin and make up, and that lesbian women have short hair and dress with socially seen clothes as a man.
For all this it could be said that stereotypes lead people to broad.
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