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What is Stereotypes

Chapter 1
Policies, Protocols, and Standards for Professionalism in a Diverse Work Environment
Generalizations about a group of people that oversimplify the group’s behaviors, characteristics, values, or social practices.
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Defining Professionalism in the Modern Workplace
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 31
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-7308-5.ch001
Abstract
Understanding the concept of “professionalism” is an important precursor to gaining knowledge about the different influences and beliefs of this term. This chapter establishes a definition of professionalism and explores how self-concept, self-identity, and self-efficacy impact an individual's capacity to perform in workplace environments. Topics covered in this chapter include the different contexts for professional communication and how changing social trends affect future understandings of the term. The chapter will conclude by exploring how increased cultural and ethnic diversity necessitates a change in behaviors, norms, and social practices in professional environments.
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Chapter 7
Nobody Knows the Troubles That I See: Perceptions of African American Women Professors Regarding Their Lived Experiences in the Academy
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Chapter 6
How Aware Are We as Rehab Physicians?: Importance of Knowing the “Self” for Enhancing Physician Competency in Multicultural Healthcare
They are defined as fixed, over-generalized beliefs about a particular social group or class of people based on prior experiences or beliefs.
Published in Chapter: How Aware Are We as Rehab Physicians?: Importance of Knowing the “Self” for Enhancing Physician Competency in Multicultural Healthcare; From: Handbook of Research on Applied Social Psychology in Multiculturalism
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Towards Management of Interoperable Learning Objects
Extensions to the UML vocabulary, allowing additional text descriptions to be applied to the notation. The stereotype is shown between chevron brackets <<>>.
Published in Chapter: Towards Management of Interoperable Learning Objects; From: Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, Second Edition
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Chapter 4
An Examination of Racial Trauma and Multicultural Counseling
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Chapter 8
Gender Representation in SMS Jokes
A widely held but oversimplified ideas regarding a particular person or thing.
Published in Chapter: Gender Representation in SMS Jokes; From: Gender and Diversity Representation in Mass Media
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Chapter 1
The “Subaltern” Will Speak: Investigating Portrayals in the Acclaimed OTT Series of India and Pakistan
Stereotypes are widely held and oversimplified beliefs or ideas about a particular group of people or things. These generalized perceptions often oversimplify the diversity within a group and can lead to unfair judgments or expectations based on preconceived notions rather than individual characteristics. Stereotypes can be based on various factors such as race, gender, nationality, or other social categories.
Published in Chapter: The “Subaltern” Will Speak: Investigating Portrayals in the Acclaimed OTT Series of India and Pakistan; From: Exploring the Impact of OTT Media on Global Societies
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Chapter 10
Exploring U.S. Citizens' Perceptions of Foreign Media's Representations of America: A Systematic Review
Over-generalized beliefs about a particular social group. It is equally a set of ideas (mostly negative ideas) one has about a particular ethnic group, a race and gender among other social categories. Most stereotypes are racist, sexist, or xenophobic in nature.
Published in Chapter: Exploring U.S. Citizens' Perceptions of Foreign Media's Representations of America: A Systematic Review; From: Popular Representations of America in Non-American Media
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Chapter 6
The Combination of Bayesian Networks and Stereotypes to Initialize the Learner Model in Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems
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Chapter 2
Artificial Intelligence Accountability in Emergent Applications: Explainable and Fair Solutions
Inferring conclusions about someone based on correlations between sensitive attributes and some historic behavior people within the same group (not necessarily supervised learning).
Published in Chapter: Artificial Intelligence Accountability in Emergent Applications: Explainable and Fair Solutions; From: Handbook of Research on AI Methods and Applications in Computer Engineering
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Chapter 5
Exploring Groupthink Bias and Polarisation Bias
Stereotypes refer to the tendency to generalise about all members of a group of people Lippmann, W. (1922) AU98: The in-text citation &quot;Lippmann, W. (1922)&quot; is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. . Public Opinion. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company.
Published in Chapter: Exploring Groupthink Bias and Polarisation Bias; From: Overcoming Cognitive Biases in Strategic Management and Decision Making
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Chapter 13
Deconstructing Stereotypes in the Discourse of the Irish Republic: The Irish Woman Through the Lens of the Celtic Tiger and Post-Celtic Tiger Short Story
Over-generalized conceptualization, belief, or expectation about a group of people. Stereotypes are created in relation to gender but also in relation to the different races, cultures, ethnicities.
Published in Chapter: Deconstructing Stereotypes in the Discourse of the Irish Republic: The Irish Woman Through the Lens of the Celtic Tiger and Post-Celtic Tiger Short Story; From: Handbook of Research on Translating Myth and Reality in Women Imagery Across Disciplines
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Chapter 2
Overcoming Implicit Bias in Collaborative Online Learning Communities
An overgeneralization about characteristics or behaviors attributed to groups of individuals based solely on membership in the group.
Published in Chapter: Overcoming Implicit Bias in Collaborative Online Learning Communities; From: Enriching Collaboration and Communication in Online Learning Communities
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Chapter 54
Can the Subaltern Play and Speak or Just be Played With?
Often simply used to describe commonly accepted generalizations attributed to particular groups, it is crucial to see stereotypes in their relationship to dominant ideologies, governing power structures, systems of inequality, and daily lived and unequal power relations.
Published in Chapter: Can the Subaltern Play and Speak or Just be Played With?; From: Handbook of Research on Effective Electronic Gaming in Education
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Chapter 6
Gender Representations in Cartoons: Niloya and Biz Ikimiz
Pre-created impressions, which fill the information gaps with regard to a particular event or group and make it easier for us to make a decision on them.
Published in Chapter: Gender Representations in Cartoons: Niloya and Biz Ikimiz; From: Gender and Diversity Representation in Mass Media
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Chapter 4
America in the Camera Obscura of Nigerian “Videastes”: A Study of Peters Roberts' 30 Days in Atlanta and George Kalu's Life is Hard in America
These are traits generally associated with specific social groups based on factors such as sexual orientation, religious convictions, age, ethnicity, nationality and race among others. They can also be defined as social classification of specific communities or group of people as often simplified and generalized signs which implicitly or explicitly represent a set of values, judgments and assumptions concerning their behaviors, characteristics or history.
Published in Chapter: America in the Camera Obscura of Nigerian “Videastes”: A Study of Peters Roberts' 30 Days in Atlanta and George Kalu's Life is Hard in America; From: Popular Representations of America in Non-American Media
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Chapter 11
Hate Speech or Hate Shot?: Finding Patterns of the Anti-Muslim Narratives in Italy
Fixed general images and a set of characteristics that a lot of people passively use or reuse to represent or conceive particular type of person, social groups or things.
Published in Chapter: Hate Speech or Hate Shot?: Finding Patterns of the Anti-Muslim Narratives in Italy; From: News Media and Hate Speech Promotion in Mediterranean Countries
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Chapter 11
Image of America in Northern Nigeria Radio-Based Broadcast: A Study of Greetings From America
Shows how mass media promotes certain way of viewing a political, economic, and social phenomenon in the society.
Published in Chapter: Image of America in Northern Nigeria Radio-Based Broadcast: A Study of Greetings From America; From: Popular Representations of America in Non-American Media
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Chapter 8
Advancing College Diversity and Access Through Partnership
Fixed ideas about different social groups that are applied across all individuals in the group.
Published in Chapter: Advancing College Diversity and Access Through Partnership; From: Handbook of Research on Practices for Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education
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Chapter 2
Worthy: Neoliberalism and Narratives of (Im)migration
Inflexible expectations of thinking or behavior applied to individuals, based on their group membership.
Published in Chapter: Worthy: Neoliberalism and Narratives of (Im)migration; From: Immigrant Women’s Voices and Integrating Feminism Into Migration Theory
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Chapter 8
Decreasing Social Isolation in Older Adults and Stereotypes in Students: Experiential Learning Creates Gerontological Providers
Commonly held ideas, images, or beliefs concerning a people group that are based on overgeneralizations and subjective experiences.
Published in Chapter: Decreasing Social Isolation in Older Adults and Stereotypes in Students: Experiential Learning Creates Gerontological Providers; From: Acceleration of the Biopsychosocial Model in Public Health
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