Types of stereotypes: race, ethnicity, geography, gender, social, political, professional

Аннотация

Stereotype - an overly generalized, inaccurate, and resistant to new information opinion about the personal qualities of a group of people. When they talk about stereotypical thinking, they mean the limitations, narrowness, or obsolescence of a person's ideas about certain objects of reality or about ways of interacting with them. Stereotypes can be useful and necessary as a form of the economy of thinking and actions in relation to fairly simple and stable objects and situations, adequate interaction with which is possible on the basis of familiar and confirmed by experience representations. In the same place, where the object requires creative thinking or has changed, but the ideas about it have remained the same, the stereotype becomes a brake in the processes of interaction of the individual with reality. In other words, a "normal" social attitude can turn into a "harmful" stereotype. Other reasons for the emergence of stereotypes of this kind are usually a lack of knowledge, dogmatic upbringing, underdevelopment of the individual, or a stop for some reason of the processes of its development.