Tajfel - Please please read.
I'm pretty sure that everyone should read this.
And I think I'm really sure that everyone is getting pissed off with the amount of journals on stereotypes and why we should stop and shit like that really.
I, for one and getting annoyed with everyone complaining about it. And before you can say this isn't a hypocritical journal about stopping stereotypes.
The last journal I wrote was about this too, but I don't think many people read it.
Basically in psychology there is a guy called Henri Tajfel who studied social pyschology. He did experiments, and research and finally came up with the Social Identity Theory.
Social identity is a theory formed by Henri Tajfel and John Turner (1979) to understand the psychological basis of intergroup discrimination. It is composed of four elements:
Categorization: We often put others (and ourselves) into categories. Labeling someone a Muslim, a Turk, a Gimp or a soccer player are ways of saying other things about these people.
Identification: We also associate with certain groups (our ingroups), which serves to bolster our self-esteem.
Comparison: We compare our groups with other groups, seeing a favorable bias toward the group to which we belong.
Psychological Distinctiveness: We desire our identity to be both distinct from and positively compared with other groups.
A stereotype is a simplified and/or standardized conception or image with specific meaning, often held in common by people about another group. A stereotype can be a conventional and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image, based on the assumption that there are attributes that members of the other group hold in common.
Social identity theory suggests that people identify with groups in such a way as to maximize postive distinctiveness; groups offer both identity and self-esteem. The theory of social identity has had a very substantial impact on many areas of social psychology, including group dynamics, intergroup relations, prejudice and stereotyping, and organizational psychology.
This, in basic terms means that the only reason we stereotype and call other groups that are different to us names is because it raises our self esteem.
Sure, calling other people names and stuff is really horrible and it hurts. It hurts alot, I know first hand, but thats why their are bullies out there. Because they suffer too. They feel down so they turn to bullying other kids, which makes their self esteem go up and they feel better about themselves.
As I said in my last journal, if we didn't have stereotypes we'd probably be a bunch of depressed little twats all whinging about ourselves.
Let the hatemail, if there is any, commence...
And I think I'm really sure that everyone is getting pissed off with the amount of journals on stereotypes and why we should stop and shit like that really.
I, for one and getting annoyed with everyone complaining about it. And before you can say this isn't a hypocritical journal about stopping stereotypes.
The last journal I wrote was about this too, but I don't think many people read it.
Basically in psychology there is a guy called Henri Tajfel who studied social pyschology. He did experiments, and research and finally came up with the Social Identity Theory.
Social identity is a theory formed by Henri Tajfel and John Turner (1979) to understand the psychological basis of intergroup discrimination. It is composed of four elements:
Categorization: We often put others (and ourselves) into categories. Labeling someone a Muslim, a Turk, a Gimp or a soccer player are ways of saying other things about these people.
Identification: We also associate with certain groups (our ingroups), which serves to bolster our self-esteem.
Comparison: We compare our groups with other groups, seeing a favorable bias toward the group to which we belong.
Psychological Distinctiveness: We desire our identity to be both distinct from and positively compared with other groups.
A stereotype is a simplified and/or standardized conception or image with specific meaning, often held in common by people about another group. A stereotype can be a conventional and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image, based on the assumption that there are attributes that members of the other group hold in common.
Social identity theory suggests that people identify with groups in such a way as to maximize postive distinctiveness; groups offer both identity and self-esteem. The theory of social identity has had a very substantial impact on many areas of social psychology, including group dynamics, intergroup relations, prejudice and stereotyping, and organizational psychology.
This, in basic terms means that the only reason we stereotype and call other groups that are different to us names is because it raises our self esteem.
Sure, calling other people names and stuff is really horrible and it hurts. It hurts alot, I know first hand, but thats why their are bullies out there. Because they suffer too. They feel down so they turn to bullying other kids, which makes their self esteem go up and they feel better about themselves.
As I said in my last journal, if we didn't have stereotypes we'd probably be a bunch of depressed little twats all whinging about ourselves.
Let the hatemail, if there is any, commence...
Posted on June 1st, 2008 at 09:37pm
