Categorization

2010). As a result, secure children will become secure adults, anxious-resistant children will develop as anxious-resistant adults, and avoidant children will grow into avoidant adults (Fraley, 2010). The behavior types for grown-ups in each categorization are a translation of the established relationships with caregiver and child. Secure adults are confident in their partners and trust that their loved ones will be dependable in times of need (Fraley, 2010). Anxious-resistant adults lack…

Canisius, an American businessman working for a rubber concession company, presents a first-hand account of the mistreatment of Africans inherent within the exploitative industry of rubber. Evidence of the system of racial hierarchy permeates the text, from the selection of native headsman to the identification system of tags. Canisius recounts that since each village had to collect a quota of rubber, a native headsman was chosen to ensure that the quota was reached. Europeans selected a…

course has forever changed my view not only about myself, but on my outlook on life. Intersectionality has been at the forefront on what I have learned in this class. Intersectionality according to Google is the “interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage”. I, myself, before this class identified as a human being or as…

Sembene Ousmane is touted as the Father of African cinema, not only for being one of the earliest film makers, but that he can equally boast of a filmography that encompasses all the basic styles and genres that characterize the broad categorizations of African cinema. Social realist narratives, colonial confrontation, and return to the origins, according to Manthia Diawara, are the three basic trends of films in Africa (Diawara 1992, 140). Right through his illustrious filmmaking career that…

Bears and Coins:The Iconography of Protection in Late Roman Infant Burials, written by Nina Crummy analyzes the sites of a small group of infant burials found within Britain. These date to early c.e., during the Roman rule of the region. While the actual archaeological evidence found within these graves is interesting enough, it is in Crummy’s analysis of the items that is of greater significance. Using these uncovered items, Crummy creates two groups to examine, and her theories regarding how…

principle is that stereotype is shared group beliefs. After reading how the authors of the book view stereotypes, it becomes clear that humans naturally have the cognitive process of detecting the differences and similarities and that is known as categorization. Also, it was helpful to know that categorizing people and treating people as a group save energy because no one will have to pay attention to the very small details. Moreover, it was interesting to acquire the fact that stereotypes are…

Which In America is more popular Rock or Hip Hop music. Research dissected the musical elements of the songs, 23% of the population were rock fans and 25% were already Hip Hop fans of early 90’s, some artists altered, the change in popularity, Hip Hop and Rap influenced pop music more than the Beatles over the last 50 years and leading into early 90’s Hip Hop became the more popular types of music. From 1960 till 1990 it was Rock and Roll that was more popular types, but by 2000 40% of fans…

anti-ethical insofar as it rejects the is/ought dichotomy in an almost Machiavellian fashion, dismissing outright the possibility of distinguishing between appropriate and inappropriate, acceptable and unacceptable, justified and unjustifiable—a categorization which is the core function of the entire field of ethics. Yet the realists are betrayed by their lexicon: the vocabulary of conflict is rife with morally-loaded words such as "atrocity", "massacre", "self-defense", and "cruelty". These…

Steven Joseph Chem 111 Eli Munoz 3 October 2016 Chemistry Technical Abstract: The Copper Cycle Steven Joseph*, Christian Contreras Introduction: This experiment consisted of studying the copper cycle. Along with its overall significance to biological systems, reactions were done in order to test the types of reaction types associated with copper. In addition, vacuum filtration methods and detailed observations were taken on how copper reacts with different chemicals as it is constantly heated…

They help us to reduce the amount of processing our brains need to do when we meet people. Unfortunately, this can lead to social categorization or assuming a range of characteristics and abilities to an entire group which can lead to an “us and them” mentality. This happens when the “us” becomes the in-group and “them” becomes the out-group. This concurs with Gallops article stating that…