SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cadency, Physical Attractiveness
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Brent staples (1992), a black man, while a graduate student at the university of. Chicago found whites feared him based on their stereotypes of young black men. Cross the street to avoid him on sidewalks. Lock their car doors when he crosses in front of a car stopped at an. Even run from him should he walk too closely behind someone in the dark intersection. He eventually changed his behavior to counteract this stereotype. He gives people wide berth on subway platforms. Doesn"t ever lobbies of buildings too quickly after other people so they wont. Even whistles melodies from classical composers to help his image others fear he is following them. Generalizations about a category of people asserting they have a particular set of characteristics and not taking into account their individual differences. Usually stereotypes are incorrect, inflexible, and unfair. Stereotypes are often based on latent statuses of gender, race, and ethnicity.
