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Stereotypes and Social Groups

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“A social group has been defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics and collectively have sense of unity. Other theories, however, vary, and this stresses the importance of interdependence of objective similarity. Instead, for researchers in the social identity tradition “a group is defined in terms of those who identify themselves as members of the group”. Regardless, social groups come in a myriad of size and varieties. For example, a society can be viewed as a large social group.” Camabiar definition of social group. We could say that human beings are always influenced by other people and involved with them. In addition, people generally modify their way of behaving, thoughts, feelings and attitudes rendering to the culture and society. One “social group” that constantly modifies a human being behavior and reaction is the gender one. If we think about the gender stereotype: men are the stronger ones, whereas women are the weakest. If we consider carefully, stereotypes begin since we are born. The first step to it is buying the baby boy blue clothes, and the baby girl pink clothes. Then toys, then education, then work, and then life. Gender labeling is a thing we live every day with, and as people grow up, they do not realize they are doing it. It is a form of discrimination to a woman on its workplace, at home, in the society, and in the “social group”; and this present a big disadvantage because what we should be thinking is not “We can do anything that men can do” but men should be saying: “we can do anything that women can do” However, the question is why do we represent a social group in a particular way? Why do we stereotype, even though we know that it creates a disadvantage for others, for women? Socialization is the answer to it. Socialization is the name given to the process “of inheriting and disseminating norms, customs and ideologies, providing

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