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Stereotypes – Their Formation and Future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

A.S. Knox
A.S. Knox*
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State School, Mornington Island
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Stereotypes “can be defined as the attribution of general psychological characteristics to large human groups.” (1. Tajfel, p. 150). Often stereotypes have their origin in historical and cultural traditions though the prevailing social climate may also be an influence. Bettelheim and Janowitz (1. p. 48) distinguished between two types of stereotyping:

  1. 1) the superego variety with traits such as over-ambition, craftiness, shrewdness and slyness;

  2. 2) the id variety with derogatory traits such as lack of ambition, stupidity, laziness, lack of inhibition, dirtiness, smelliness and over-sexiness.

Type
Across Australia …… From Teacher to Teacher
Information
The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , February 1978 , pp. 33 - 47
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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