...“We all use stereotypes, all the time, without knowing it. We have met the enemy of equality, and the enemy is us.” - Paul (1998). Stereotyping is usually caused by the way in which we think in terms of categories from our own experiences.In the novel The Outsiders, a lot of stereotyping occurs between the two groups, the Greasers and the Socs. Most of the stereotypes found in the book are very obvious or extremely subtle. The stereotypes made in the book are made by the two gangs, and can be conspicuous to the reader, or they can be subtle. One salient stereotype is how both of the gangs describe each other, in what they wear and how they live.The Greasers define the Socs as the rich kids who live on the West Side of town, wear madras shirts, drive nice cars, like to jump the Greasers, and are an asset to society. Whereas the Socs define the Greasers as the poor kids who were white trash with long greasy hair.Another apparent stereotype was how...
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...Getting to Know You What exactly is socieo economic status? It basically means being stereotyped on how much money you have. What are stereotypes and how are they formed? Stereotypes are judgements and they are formed when we judge people based on common or personal beliefs. Msu.com says “Stereotypes are formed because people feel the need to categorize the world into preferably, neat little groups.” How are stereotypes and socieo economic status connected? We often judge one another based on how much money we have, as seen in the 1967 novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and the article The Effects of Stereotyping Teenagers by Kristen Tucker. This is a big problem that deserves a solution. If we got to know people, we could stop judging people base on socieo economic status. We could finally see people for who they really are. First, in The Outsiders, the town of Tulsa,...
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...Ponyboy is a greaser in the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton. Ponyboy plays the narrator and the protagonist in the book. If you were to meet this character for the first time most likely some ideas about him would come to your head, but some of those ideas could be a stereotype. A stereotype is a belief about a group of people based on a common characteristic but is not necessarily true. Some stereotypes of Ponyboy could be he is a criminal, thief, does not care about school, and does bad things to people; however, these are not true. A stereotype for ponyboy of being a gang member is that he is a criminal and does bad things to other people. Some people would have many stereotypes about Ponyboy like if he is in a gang he is a criminal but that not true. Ponyboy is a gang member but he is not a criminal ponyboy helps lots of people out. There are many ways he has helped people, for instance, he saved 8 little kids lives from a burning building without hesitation. Furthermore, people may think he is a thief or a drug dealer for his gang. Ponyboy is not a thief or is involved with drugs in the book it never said anything about ponyboy being into drugs or a thief. When most people think of greasers or gang...
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...CASE: IT WASN’T ABOUT RACE. OR WAS IT? 1.- Identify two different concepts that have been discussed in readings and lectures that you see playing out in this case. * Stereotype: A.- Definition: We can define this concept as “A perceptual and cognitive process in which specific behavioral traits are ascribed to individuals on the basis of their group membership”. (Cox, 1993) We can also define it as a rigid, exaggerated belief associated with a mental category, that can be more or less rational and that is a consequence from the complex environment and the lack of information that the one who consider it shows. In other words, it comes up to simplify the information and the environment. It is important to know that a stereotype result from differences in levels of contact of individuals with members of “outgroups”. In this way, the lower the contact the larger the tendency to evaluate them along fewer dimensions. It is also important to know that a stereotype does not have to be necessarily bad; traits associated with the group can be positive or negative. B.- Give specific examples in the case of where the concept plays out. The stereotype suggested here is the one of the “black criminal”. Unfortunately it is usually associated black people with criminals, or at least there is a thought about that there is a higher probability that a black to be a criminal than a white to be so. We can see how in the case Hope thought that Dillon was a criminal because he entered the...
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...labelled as criminal in the first place. They argue that no act is inherently criminal or deviant in itself. In other words, it is not the nature of the act that makes it deviant but the nature of society’s reaction to the act. For a sociologist such as Becker, a deviant is simply someone to whom the label has been successfully applied, and deviant behavior is simply behavior that people label. This leads labelling theorists to look at how and why laws are made. They are particularly interested the role that Becker calls moral entrepreneurs. These are people who lead a moral crusade to change the law in the belief that it will benefit those whom is it applied. Becker then argues that this new law has two effects; it creates a new group of ‘outsiders’ and expands the social control agency to enforce the rule and impose labels on offenders. Platt argues that the idea of ‘juvenile delinquency’ was originally created as a result of a campaign by upper class Victoria moral entrepreneurs, aimed at protecting young people at risk. This established ‘juveniles’ as a separate category of offender with their own courts, and it enabled the state to extent its powers beyond criminal offences involving the young, into so called ‘status offences’ such as truancy and sexual promiscuity. Labelling theorists believe that not everyone gets labelled. Whether a person is labelled or not depends on factors such as the person’s appearance and background. Piliavin and Briar found that police decision...
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...The first common stereotype used to describe Native people, is The Noble Savage Image. According to the book written by Carol Cornelius, the Noble Savage Image was seen as a romantic view of Indians and how they lived in harmony with the nature. It also suggests, that the “outsider” has been not influenced or corrupted by the civilization. A clear example of this image, is the character Hiawatha, which was created from the combination of the Iroquois “Aywetha”, and the Ojibwa mythology. According to this creation, Native Americans are seen as “one people”; which means that they do not show the diversity among Native Americans. Other common stereotype is the idea that states that Native Americans only can better themselves if they are with white...
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...a saturation of current affair programs built on false ideologies that manipulate the Australian public. The media has power to create and enforce stereotypes; media in Australia promotes these stereotypes. News reporters and current affair programs are often perceived as the most factual; however, deliberate choices have been made regarding all aspects of a story’s construction. Aesthetic aspects including camera shots, music and language, influences the promotion of chosen perspectives while silencing others. Media portrayal and reflections of Islam and Muslims perpetuate cultural stereotypes. There is an increasing trend of people associating all Muslims with terrorists...
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...In Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s “Racial Formation” they discussed how they believe that biologically speaking there is no race. Rather, we produced concept of race socially. According Omi and Winant race has religious, political, and scientific. They said, “race is a concept that signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different type of human beings” (Omi and Winant 123). Omi and Winant share the belief with me that treatment of particular peoples can solely be based off their color of their skin. There are many stereotypes associated with color such as being thugs or trouble makers. For example, the term black was developed as a product of colonization and slavery. This development divided African Americans...
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...Krystal Rowland CRASH: SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES “Sociology is the study of human behavior in society” (Kimmel and Aronson 2012). Sociologists study humans in their environments and the social interactions that occur in those environments in order to develop theories of how human behavior is shaped by groups of people and or how life is affected by those individuals. Paul Haggis’ movie Crash (Haggis 2005) contains both social and multicultural differences that we as humans experience in our society and in our world everyday. In the movie, he takes us on a journey through a sociological process made up of racism, social class, and gender which all play roles in stereotypes and assumptions we make about others. Crash is set in the city of Los Angeles, California as it continues to grow as a multicultural society, exploring how racial intolerance and prejudice are problems for all of the United States. The movie Crash (Haggis 2005), explains many of the sociological concepts that explain how one’s behavior or actions can have a direct effect on another persons life, shaping it profoundly and changing the outcome forever. The first few lines of the movie basically set the sociological tone for the film. Graham, played by Don Cheadle says, “It’s the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We’re always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash...
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... emotional) work done by cinéphiles. How does this attempt to address or shape some of the limits that he finds in many examples of fan culture? What makes his effort different than just being a fan, or hanging out with fans? Matt Hills is proposing that fans should document their own culture (In this case, the object of their fandom) and let the public see what actually fuels and is brought about by their interactions/fandom, rather than just having the occasional random memes or fan stereotypes that get publicity be the only facet that is ever seen. These fan “auto-ethnographies” should be different from being or hanging out with fans in that you are actively informing people of each aspect of fandom, rather than just the superficial "wow this movie is so good" that you share with other people. Fan Ethnograpies emphasise the knowledge of a given fan. The main process of asking their audience, although it is a useful one, can end up being fairly detrimental. Fan knowledge is almost exclusively relied on, as well their own exposure to any relevant media. Fan communities also use at times stale narrative styles from pop culture to express their views. Autoethnogrpahies are fan narratives, and by extension narratives of oneself. If outside fan ethnograpgies are limited by their view of what’s ‘real’ as defined by Hills, or by their one-sided outsider accounts of “regular” fandom as either a social phenomenon or a kind of coping mechanism (Fans escaping into their fantasy...
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...There has always been debate about how much influence television has on a person’s mind, so in a recent research article titled “Constructing Gender Stereotypes Through Social Roles in Prime-Time Television,” written by Martha M. Lauzen, David M. Dozier, and Nora Horan, the three authors explore male and female roles on popular television shows on major broadcasting networks for the purpose of determining statistically whether or not normal male and female stereotypes are conveyed in prime-time television. Throughout this article, the authors make an argument they think is important, but in all reality, most readers would not find this information important enough to hold their full attention due to the complicated wording, biased examples, and the very repetitive information. The authors begin the article with a brief abstract which summarizes what it is the readers can expect from their article. The article is broken down into sections which separate the different topics that the authors are discussing. On the top of page 203 in the article, the authors clearly state, “Building on this previous research, the current study examines whether female and male characters continue to inhabit traditionally sex-typed roles. Such analysis is important in light of the fact that popular press accounts regularly boast about the rapid evolution of the portrayals of gender in prime-time” (Lauzen, Dozier, Horan p.203). When constructing their research, the authors used a variety of different...
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...How is the concept of the outsider represented in Othello? An outsider is someone that is not fully accepted by society. They tend to be shunned and excluded, deemed different and a threat. Outsiders don’t conform to society’s values and beliefs and the concept of this is represented in Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’. In this tragedy, the Outsider alienates themselves by going against sixteenth century attitudes about sex, gender, and race. Shakespeare comments on how a society excludes and mistreats someone different from the paradigm that defines the Venetian society. The tragic figure, Desdemona, is an example of this concept and her actions, and the actions of people around her ultimately doom her. Desdemona is portrayed as a beautiful, young, Venetian woman. She is first set as an outsider when she chooses to marry an old, black man, Othello over young, wealthy, white Venetians. Interracial marriage was highly uncommon and looked down upon. This is clearly shown when Iago makes racial comments about Othello, “Even now, now, very now an old black ram is tupping your white ewe”. Iago’s use of black and white imagery degrades Othello and gives the impression that he has defiled the pure ‘white ewe’, Desdemona. Iago clearly doesn’t approve and sees the union of black and white as a bestial one. Shakespeare uses repetition (now, now, very now) to emphasise the particular idea that what is happening is shocking. Shakespeare is deliberately startling and troubling the audience, using...
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...Rethinking the Regional Novel In the previous chapters, I have discussed the polemics of the regional novel during the course of its evolution as a special category. An attempt was made there to trace their development in the British, Indian, and Telugu literary traditions. The British regional novel is a different phenomenon from that of the regional novel in India. Yet, there have been some important continuities in the genre. Preoccupations with landscape as also with identity conflicts have continued as distinctive components of the regional novel. As the introduction discusses, such developments are partly products of the socioeconomic milieu of the writers. In this concluding section, I return to that assertion and draw together some observations, discussions and arguments to offer my views on what might actually have gone into the making of the regional novel. Firstly, I review the major queries regarding the nature of the "region" and the "regional novel" that have cropped up during the course of the thesis and consider how they might be explained. "There is no universally accepted definition of the region," observes Norton Ginsberg, (qtd. in Cohn 101) The study comes out with the hypothesis that the "region" cannot be given one particular identity and definition. When we come across labels like Regional College of Education, Regional Engineering College, etc, we are bound to associate the region with something local and inferior as opposed to the National and the...
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...is strung out on drugs and has a brother who likes to kill, two car thieves, a white district attorney, a racist cop, a black Hollywood director, a full Persian descent father, and a Hispanic locksmith are all the characters in the film. This film has some sociological problems that occur everyday in the United States. One of the problems in our society is institutional discrimination. Institutional discrimination refers to the unfair, indirect treatment of an individual embedded in the operating procedures, policies, laws, or objectives of large organizations. This situation can be recognized as widespread because certain jobs are all over America and therefore they might perform the same type of discrimination to somebody. One example of this would be when the racist police and his younger co-worker pulled the successful Hollywood director and his wife over after just retrieving that somebody was car jacked. The Hollywood director was driving the same type of car that was reported stolen. However, the police operator gave the racist cop the stolen car license plate number so to pull these people over was no connection in their earlier call. It was the same exact car but had a different license plate number and the wrong description of people. He decided to pull the truck over anyway after he saw the Hollywood director wife bring her head up as if she was giving him oral sex. While this was happening the young cop kept telling the racist cop that this wasn’t the right...
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...and values the relevant society holds. This is evident when comparing “The Taming Of The Shrew” and it’s teen film appropriation, “Ten Things I Hate About You”, made to appeal to the 1990’s teenage audience. The theme of individuality is explored throughout both “Ten Things” and “The Taming”, in very different ways. Kat, the protagonist of “Ten Things” is our good old, nonconformist outsider that ‘teen audiences’ have come to know and love in movies. Kat is a strong, confident, and independent women,who doesn’t conform to the social teenage pressure that surround her. An example of her ‘I-don’t-care-what-people-think’ attitude is mirrored in the movie’s soundtrack. As such, the opening shot camera pans across the skyline to rest on a shiny convertible with four feminine girls wearing pigtails and listening to a band named “Barenaked Ladies” before an another - more battered - car pulls up. The second car reveals Kat listening to Joan Jett’s “Bad Reputation”. Thus from the first scene, the audience sees Kat as the angry, unconventional feminist who doesn’t care what others think. Another example of her individualism is when Kat says to her ‘shallow and popular sister’: “You don’t always have to be who they want you to be you know” . This reference is to Kat’s peers, teachers and parents, and her deep dislike of her sister’s willingness to fit in and be accepted by ‘others’ (although, there really isn’t a problem with liking being adored). ‘The Taming” is deeply embedded with...
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