Categorization

highly gendered, with the male/female and masculine/feminine binaries othering the female/feminine. When individuals blur these categories, they become liminal. Valeria Sobol defines the liminal personae as ambiguous, paradoxical, and resistant to categorization. In Katya Hokanson’s assessment of Russian identity, she observes this issue of liminality in the Russian borderlands (as in the frontier of A Hero of Our Time), noting previous literary attempts to separate Russian identity from the…

Racial categorizations are premised on the notion of biological classifications of groups of people based on morphological features, including skin color and other physical attributes. The society externally classifies individuals into racial groups instead of the individuals choosing their race or identity themselves. Conceptions of race are generally controversial because of their influence on social identity, including how the identity affects a person’s standing in the society (Desmond and…

From the beginning of time, it has been bred into our lives to incessantly create patterns that help form a basis of reality and how to adapt to that reality. During the earliest times of human existence, we were faced with the burden of overcoming the harsh realities of the world and have strived to create certain ideologies in order to survive. This created a sense of anxiety that was essential to human nature. However, as the world progressed, this anxiety translated from analyzing and…

The first reason why, Adnan’s trial is unforgivable because of the categorization about his very own case scenario. While going through his very own transcripts from his six-week trial, they were being forced to finish, he wasn’t only be able to try to put the evidence but also on his setting. Their very own analysis of the data couldn’t really be able to find any determined truthful evidence that is being showed at the case to propose that religion was actually motivated to the crime scene. The…

In the ten minute play “What Are You Going to be?” by Steven Korbar, Natalie: an adolescent girl, chooses a burka costume over any other costume. Her parents Greg and Carol are not too fond of her decision. Natalie feels that it is okay to be a little different from other girls, who dress up as Disney princesses and other “costumes for little girls”. Her mother Carol feels as if Natalie is rejecting everything she's ever taught her about being a modern, post-feminist women. Carol also believes…

In modern society, there is no truer statement than “money is power”. Because of this, the world can be divided into subcategories based on net worth. Alternatively, society groups people by race. This compulsive categorization of society is now so deeply ingrained that society couldn’t possibly function without it. Who is the cause of this division of the classes? Is it the fault of the middle class simply because it holds the majority of the population? Or perhaps it is the fault of the…

Intercultural communication is defined according to the LANGUAGE NETWORK FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE, as situated communication between individuals or groups of different linguistic and cultural origins. Since today more than ever, we live in a culturally diverse society due to globalization, as our world grows and becomes increasingly more interconnected the need for effective interpersonal communication among differing cultures has become vital. When we interact with different cultures and they with…

Chahenda Marsaoui Mrs. Bowers Eng.3/4, 1st/5th 9 Dec. 2016 Stereotypes In the 21st century, there are still very diverse social issues and stereotyping is one of them. Social issues affect the society negatively and people need to make a change and spread more awareness. So how can stereotypes be bad and how do they get created. First, you may think what is a stereotype? well, “any time you’re grouping races or individuals together to make a judgment about them without knowing them, this is an…

According to the social identity theory there are three processes that are responsible for the formation of a person’s identity within his social network. These process are social categorization, identification, and social comparison. Everyone assigns others to different categories based on occupation, age, and sex to name a few. If a person sees that he is part of a negative category to most of society when he comes to the identification…

Article Summary The article, “Drug Abuse and Addiction” by Gregory Collins, Mark McAllister, and Kamala Audry shows the difference between substance abuse and substance addiction by separating the different characteristics that are apparent in abuse and addiction. Substance abuse is described by the authors as, “showing recurrent use resulting in a decline of the ability to produce everyday actions, as well as intervention with the law” (Collins, McAllister, & Adury, 2010). To be categorized as…