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Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"d39b46b3f7ef22b4a3a221038394de7c" data-index&equals;"1" style&equals;"float&colon; left&semi; margin&colon; 10px 10px 10px 0&semi;">&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- Sociology Learners 336 X 280 Post Top --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;inline-block&semi;width&colon;336px&semi;height&colon;280px" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-7649183549375766" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1656902389"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine;&lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">People are liable for categorizing other individuals across the globe&period; This is the process&comma; which is present in all societies&period; There are several common bases on which such categorization involve&period; Race&comma; gender and age are major criteria for division&period; Significantly&comma; it is necessary to classify individuals as white&comma; black&comma; Asian&comma; European&comma; Latinos&comma; female&comma; male&comma; adult&comma; child etc&period; right after seeing the person&period; Possibility exist related to the process for great amount of data related to momentary encounters&period; People take time to recognize the way of treating a person as unique individual&comma; yet little time is required for identifying the stranger as the exponent of any category&period; In addition to this&colon; researcher insist on the fact that individuals never follow the tips and regularly categorize them&period; There are ways which are used by people for identifying other individuals and also the causes which prompt individuals for doing it&period; Consequently&comma; noticing stereotypes leads to different social phenomena which have impact on society and separate individuals from that society &lpar;lumen&comma; 2018&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The common definition of Stereotypes is- people who characterize other members of the same group which he&sol;she belongs to in typical features&period; The stereotype is considered as oversimplified lists of values and beliefs&comma; about groups or social stratums&comma; they are associated with&period; The strict perception of the characteristics help people for characterizing other people in manner of attributing them for specific groups&period; Stereotypes sometime incorrectly describe some members of social groups&period; The characterization of stereotypes are mostly based on salience principle&period; It states some events which are obvious and initially appear as prominent&period; Thus&comma; individuals are salient related to those events&period; For example&comma; skin complexion is salient and obvious characteristics&period; The skin tone is very first thing noticed by people&comma; which is why&comma; it becomes a basis for the stereotyping&period; In some places&comma; salient characteristic is determined through culture&period; Lips&comma; nose&comma; shape&comma; size&comma; body structure&comma; skin color or hair texture are the salient characteristics &lpar;Sociology&comma; 2017&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&NewLine;Prejudice is an attitude or behavior towards individuals who are being discriminated&period; It basically means what exactly individual think about adherent of any similar social group&period; It refers to thoughts&comma; beliefs&comma; attitudes and feelings someone holds against anyone or with group&period; It does not depend on experiences&comma; instead&comma; depends on prejudgment&comma; developing outside the real experience&period; A documentary of 1970 called &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Eye of the Storm” focuses on the ways of developing prejudice by presenting one category of individuals’ superiority&comma; outcomes in the prejudice against others&comma; who are not privileged by that category &lpar;lumen&comma; 2018&rpar;&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Discrimination is irregular and negative attitude of a person towards any member of same group due to the fact of members in definite stratum or group&period; People perceive discrimination as an action and consider it as an act towards deprived people&period; Two forms of discrimination exist&period; Income and housing discrimination&period; The major difference among them is subordination of law&period; Discrimination reflects to behavior&comma; and prejudice reflects to attitudes&period; Discrimination on the basis of ethnicity or race can take several forms&comma; from biased hiring to unfair housing activities&period; Overt discriminations is seen in many countries&comma; and several cultures&period; In late 19th century&comma; it was common for owners and entrepreneurs for holding the boards of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;No Irish&comma; No Black&comma; No Muslim&comma; etc&period;” However&comma; discrimination could not be erase from culture only by enacting and announcing laws and legal action for abolishing it&period; Not even magic pill could completely eliminate it from human minds&comma; and cultures across the globe &lpar;Sociology&comma; 2017&rpar;&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Racial&comma; religious&comma; political or any other prejudice makes the ground for the international misunderstandings&period; Bias&comma; stereotypes&comma; discrimination and prejudice have an illusory correlation with the truth or reality&period; Therefore&comma; they lead individual to racial wars&comma; and misunderstanding&period; Hence&comma; it is necessary to aware about preventive measures and avoiding techniques for such creations&period; In general&comma; it is running our society&comma; people are getting judgmental&comma; and materialistic&period; They do not want to talk to people who does not belong to their groups&comma; social societies&comma; or culture&period; UK is still one of the best example of having discriminated societies and people&comma; who do not want to interact or associate with black&comma; Muslims&comma; Latinos&comma; etc&period; &lpar;Enteman&comma; 2003&rpar;&period; &NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">References<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"left">Enteman&comma; W&period;F&period;&comma; 2003&period; Stereotyping&comma; prejudice&comma; and discrimination&period; Images that injure&colon; Pictorial stereotypes in the media&comma; pp&period;23-27&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Luman&comma; 2018&period; Stereotype&comma; prejudice and discrimination&period; &lbrack;Online&rsqb;&comma; Available at&colon;&nbsp&semi; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;courses&period;lumenlearning&period;com&sol;sociology&sol;chapter&sol;stereotypes-prejudice-and-discrimination&sol;">https&colon;&sol;&sol;courses&period;lumenlearning&period;com&sol;sociology&sol;chapter&sol;stereotypes-prejudice-and-discrimination&sol;<&sol;a>&comma; 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