Many times, the terms stereotype, prejudice, discrimination, and racism are often used interchangeably, and most people think they are the same thing, but from a sociological perspective, it is important to define them: Stereotypes or socially categorizing one group, to misrepresentation ideas about that groups of people, Such as, film or TV shows , about which heavily rely on stereotypes, like establish character's traits, blonde women are dumb, foreigners are "evil" character, Mexicans are lazy, and blacks are great athletes. Teen-aged are technology-crazed, uncivilized, moralistic or either popular kids or geeks. Therefore, the result of self-fulfilling prophecies can be the unequal treatment of ethnic, racial, religious, and gender minority students. Which, encourages and teaches the stereotype of individual groups of people.
Prejudice refers to thoughts and feelings about those groups held by members of one group about another. For …show more content…
It can ignore very a wide range special of differences in people to simplistic categorizations. It can cause assumptions about particular groups of people into "realities" usually in a way considered to be unfair. Can be used to justify the position of those in power, especially, when abusing White Privilege, power Race, on the other hand, can be socially constructed. First, what race is not, is biological, it is social and political conceptions. In fact, one can perceive his/her racial identity one way and then shift it with experience and time. The social construction of race and features that we attach to it and the classifications within it, whether "Black, White, Asian, and etc." Which, means race, then, is conditioned on and by an always shifting, societal context. Racism is a type of prejudice that involves setting beliefs about a specific racial group. Once we do so, we begin to respond to those people more as members of a social group than as
Prejudice refers to thoughts and feelings about those groups held by members of one group about another. For …show more content…
It can ignore very a wide range special of differences in people to simplistic categorizations. It can cause assumptions about particular groups of people into "realities" usually in a way considered to be unfair. Can be used to justify the position of those in power, especially, when abusing White Privilege, power Race, on the other hand, can be socially constructed. First, what race is not, is biological, it is social and political conceptions. In fact, one can perceive his/her racial identity one way and then shift it with experience and time. The social construction of race and features that we attach to it and the classifications within it, whether "Black, White, Asian, and etc." Which, means race, then, is conditioned on and by an always shifting, societal context. Racism is a type of prejudice that involves setting beliefs about a specific racial group. Once we do so, we begin to respond to those people more as members of a social group than as