Sentences with phrase «by social stereotypes»

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And I'd been guilty of perpetuating this sort of prejudice by perpetuating stereotypes of psychics as shifty, exotic people or as being unreal, unable to be found as mothers or neighbors or activists like Emily, who's active in social justice - based causes, particularly the fight for transgender equal rights.

Without foundations, there are no truths that can mandate radical change, and the stereotypes of left and right by which he defines «social justice,» along with his religio - patriotic flights of «pure, joyous hope» in limitless change, seem no more than quaint and fanciful.

As this parody of what she really was, she inspires great art, but she also stands as an obstacle to female social equality by helping perpetuate a stereotype which, whether it is shamed or glorified, demeans womanhood.

The model supports stereotyped notions of what masculine and feminine are by adding mystification to guard against change in the social sphere, where women are at a huge disadvantage.»

This was a question posed on a private singles group moderated by social scientist Bella DePaulo, author of Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and -LSB-...]

This was a question posed on a private singles group moderated by social scientist Bella DePaulo, author of Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After.

Gender is a social construction and so - called gender stereotypes are produced and reproduced by institutions such as the family, schools, the labour market or the media.

Most politicians will not repeat these stereotypes in public, but they are popularized by talk radio, social media, etc..

Using publicly available tweets, social psychologists and computer scientists from the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center, Germany, and Australia are helping us to parse out the stereotypes formed by word choices on the social media channel Twitter.

On the other hand, these findings have a more applied scope: policymakers could use them to measure and forge convergent memories in communities affected by epidemics of biological or social nature, like knowledge about the Zika virus or the propagation of stereotypes.»

A seemingly threatening situation presents itself; you go into fight - or - flight mode; the threat proves spurious; you alert your (genetically close - knit) social group to the absence of actual danger by emitting a stereotyped vocalization — one that is amplified as it passes contagiously from member to member.

The term stereotype - threat was coined by social psychologists Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson in 1995 in an experiment that looked at race.

Social science research suggests that women's perceptions of their environments are influenced by stereotype threat: the anxiety faced when confronted with situations in which one may be evaluated using a negative stereotype.

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by impairments in reciprocal social communication, and repetitive, stereotyped verbal and non-verbal behaviors.

He treats this as a fundamentally dynamic process, and is interested in how basic visual perception of other people may be shaped by stereotypes and biases, prior knowledge, and other aspects of social cognition.

From birth we are bombarded with the opinions and social norms dictated by a superficial standard of beauty and gender stereotypes.

For as she points out here ever so succinctly,» White men's right of access to black women's bodies was an assumption supported both by their history as legal property and by the myth of their sexual promiscuity,» and «Emancipation did not end the social and political usefulness of this stereotype.»

Stereotype threat, a term coined by social psychologists Claude M. Steele and Joshua Aronson, refers to the risk of confirming negative stereotypes about one's own identity group.

Evidence also suggests that exposure to diverse teachers can benefit all students — not just students of color — by reducing students» stereotypes and encouraging cross-cultural social interactions.9 Extrapolating from this research, it is likely that Latinx students — as well as all students — would benefit similarly from Latinx teachers.

Since pit bulls are often victims of dog fighting and negative stereotypes, you can help improve their lot by dispelling myths about them through social media, letters to the editor, and other forms of advocacy.

Video game players have a stigma to them that they are «social losers» well what a better way to feed that stereotype by playing with your «friends» with them not even there.

These form a sharp and savagely humorous satire of social and racial stereotypes and here are accompanied by multiple TV monitors showing fragments of footage shot during the 2010 student protests against government cuts.

In a society that claims to provide access to culture to everybody but never ceases to indicate which are the models that we should follow, what is culturally and intellectually acceptable and what isn't, Jeremy Deller has broken free by starting to play with social stereotypes, by taking an interest in sub-cultures, folklores, people, all that is human as a matter of fact.

Within the context of the exhibition, Shonibare's work explores the social constructs which inform the human condition by examining racial and cultural stereotypes through juxtaposing a white and a black ballerina dancing each other's mirror image in what is traditionally a solo from Swan Lake.

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Accordingly, anti-age discrimination in employment law aims at promoting various purposes to remedy these wrongs, including preventing opportunistic behaviour by employers, who are tempted to dismiss older workers when their labour costs are higher than their marginal productivity; promoting displaced older workers who experience major challenges to reemployment; protecting against ageist stereotypes and ageism; and alleviating social isolation, oppression and economic deprivation among older workers.

By using the social network's data, Clicker's recommendation engine can classify or stereotype first - time users based on their Facebook interactions.

The very fact that the comment was made and then seized on by the media continues to promote stereotypes of Aboriginal people, without considering the broader social issues at play.

The distress experienced by transgender people is caused by social rejection, stereotype, and violence committed against them.