Read the excerpts below containing definitions of a stereotype and stereotyping, then watch the video. 

a) text: 

An undifferentiated attribution that usually involves a judgment of habits, traits, abilities, or expectations, and that is thought to characterize all members of a group regardless of individual variation and with no attention to the relation between the attributions and the social contexts in which they have arisen (Adams, Bell, Griffin, 2007, App. 12 C). 

(…) (a) stereotypes are aids to explanation, (b) stereotypes are energy-saving devices, and (c) stereotypes are shared group beliefs (McGarthy, Yzerbyt, Spears, 2002, p. 2). 

An oversimplified, generalized, and often unconscious preconception about people or ideas that may lead to prejudice and discrimination. A generalisation in which characteristics possessed by a part of a group are extended to the group as a whole (Brander et al., 2023, p. 490). 

Stereotyping: expectation that all cultural group members will have the same characteristics (Kurylo, 2013, p. 430). 



Last modified: Wednesday, 15 January 2025, 12:02 PM