Stereotypes and prejudice worksheet

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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
Disability
Incapable
Sick
Wanting pity
Race
Lazy
Poor
terrorist
Gender(female)
weak
Ditzy
expensive

Part II

Answer each question in 50 to 100 words related to those stereotypes. Provide citations for all the sources you use.

What are the positive aspects of stereotypes, if any?

To be honest I can think of any positive aspects of stereotypes. Unless you just like the attention that some of the stereotypes give you like if your heavy set some people say you are lazy so they don’t expect too much out of you. So if you like not being under pressure and you don’t mind being called lazy then I guess that could be a positive stereotype.

What are the negative aspects of stereotypes?

In my opinion all of them are negative, anything that hinders someone from being able to get something out of life is a negative thing. So when people are labeled because of some feature that is not in there control then its deffinately a negative thing. I can’t find anything positive out of stereotyping.

Part III

Answer each question in 50 to 150 words related to those stereotypes. Provide citations for all the sources you use.

Define stereotypes and prejudice. What is the difference between stereotyping and prejudice? Use examples to illustrate the differences.

Stereotypes unreliable, exaggerated generalizations about all members of a group that do not take individual differences into account. (Schaefer, 2012)
The word prejudice refers to prejudgment, or forming an opinion before becoming aware of the relevant facts of a case. (Wikipedia)
To me the differences between the two even though there small. But the differences would be that prejudice is a learned judgment where as stereotypes is a unreliable generalization about a group of people. An example of prejudice is a family taught hate towards a certain group of people. And an example of stereotypes would be the news telling the public that all Muslim’s are terrorist just cause of one extreme group of Muslim’s.

What is the relationship between stereotyping and prejudice?

I think the relationship of stereotyping and prejudice would be the person doing the action is just doing it because they don’t really have a understanding or an educated opinion on a certain group of people so they are really just acting upon their misunderstanding of a group of people.

What can be done to prevent prejudice from occurring?

To be simple and in one word. Action, the best way to prevent something like that is to act and teach the young generations what wasn’t being taught to our generation. Stop the hate stop the uneducational slander to anyone and everyone and I think everyone that wants it to be different to just get up and do something about it instead of just gripping about it.

Thank you