Stereotypes And Stereotyping Summary
Psychology DP
Commentary
Lawrence Blum’s, “Stereotypes and Stereotyping: A Moral Analysis” paper, explains and defines stereotypes. The paper talks about the group stereotypes and how this affect societies perspective of other societies or individuals that belong into a social group. The article starts with a short simple definition of this concept: “Stereotypes are false or misleading generalizations about groups held in a manner that renders them largely, though not entirely, immune to counter evidence.” . The article shows only the disadvantages that stereotypes can bring into a society, and how the perspectives may change because of this generalizations.
The aim of the paper is basically to give an appropriate focus to the stereotypes, to find out what is exactly wrong with stereotypes and why they have such bad consequences on societies; the article uses moral philosophy to reach the appropriate focus. The text approaches stereotypes from two different perspectives: as cultural entities and as an individual psychic process. When it comes to the cultural entities, stereotypes are “not just any generalization about or image of a group, but widely-held' and …show more content…
For this approach, they could be originated in individuals minds or with stereotypes that arise from other people, `rumors´. Later on, the text explains the consequences of the stereotypes that might be true, or false. Most of the time, an stereotype implies that the majority of the social group is included, the rest of them are considered as
Commentary
Lawrence Blum’s, “Stereotypes and Stereotyping: A Moral Analysis” paper, explains and defines stereotypes. The paper talks about the group stereotypes and how this affect societies perspective of other societies or individuals that belong into a social group. The article starts with a short simple definition of this concept: “Stereotypes are false or misleading generalizations about groups held in a manner that renders them largely, though not entirely, immune to counter evidence.” . The article shows only the disadvantages that stereotypes can bring into a society, and how the perspectives may change because of this generalizations.
The aim of the paper is basically to give an appropriate focus to the stereotypes, to find out what is exactly wrong with stereotypes and why they have such bad consequences on societies; the article uses moral philosophy to reach the appropriate focus. The text approaches stereotypes from two different perspectives: as cultural entities and as an individual psychic process. When it comes to the cultural entities, stereotypes are “not just any generalization about or image of a group, but widely-held' and …show more content…
For this approach, they could be originated in individuals minds or with stereotypes that arise from other people, `rumors´. Later on, the text explains the consequences of the stereotypes that might be true, or false. Most of the time, an stereotype implies that the majority of the social group is included, the rest of them are considered as