PSYC12H3 Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Stereotyping and Prejudice
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Chapter one: introduction to the study of stereotyping and prejudice. Membership in a group can be restricted on the basis of special skills, family relations, gender, power, and a host of other factors. Some believe that prejudice and stereotyping are no longer a problem in the us, however, while it is the case that overt expressions of racial prejudice and intergroup hatred have declined dramatically, they have by no means disappeared. The word stereotype originally derives from a term to describe a printing process in which fixed casts of material are reproduced. Researchers soon began to regard stereotyping as a very negative, lazy way of perceiving social groups; in other words, stereotyping was seen as an outward indicator of irrational, nonanalytic cognition. However there is a problem with the past part of the definition. A stereotype is any generalization about a group whether an observer believes it is justified or not. o.
