Possibility Of Avoiding Stereotyping

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Possibility of Avoiding StereotypingWhereas stereotyping and human nature are almost inseparable in many relationship settings, it is possible to keep it at minimum levels. Social environment factors determine how an individual embraces or dispels stereotypic notions. The possibility of reducing and avoiding stereotyping is enhanced by appropriate enlightenment and acquisition of social skills that facilitate accommodating others. In a socially diverse society, avoiding stereotypes not only determines coexistence but also favors development and social growth. Avoiding stereotypes entails elimination of the code words and generalizations that may appeal to an individual yet offend another individual in the society (Bernard, 2011).

Relating Stereotyping with Prejudice and DiscriminationSocial exclusion factors that target the accommodation variables of the society inherently cross lines with the social vice triad involving prejudice, discrimination, and stereotypic opinions. In view of the relationship that these three factors have with each other, the existence of one raises the possibility of the others to thrive in a socially segregated society. Stereotyping entails generalizing individuals on typical attributes of a group that they belong to whereas prejudice entails holding a specific attitude against members of a particular group. Discrimination binds the stereotypic attitudes with negative actions that raise social exclusion levels.

Mitigating StereotypingThe use of appropriate language in social places is important in avoiding the negative impact of stereotyping that is worsened by perceptions that targeted individuals make from its exhibition. Alternatively, cultivating intercultural cohesion and understanding with an aim of erasing negative attitudes facilitates elimination of stereotyping (Welsh, 2011).

Class Assignment #2 Stereotypes

Human behavior studies around addictive tendencies face a challenge of addicts’ preferences to addiction behaviors. Researchers have dedicated commendable efforts to understand addiction mechanisms but origins of initial attraction to addictive tendencies, for instance drug and substance abuse that results in addiction remain elusive. Predisposing factors such as genetic inheritance dominate studies to reveal possible explanation of addictive tendencies down the generational line.

A quasi-experimental design to reveal this phenomenon can be set using the following research question: “can a genetic analysis of an addict father explain addictive tendencies observed in the son’s behaviors?”

A true experimental design in answering the genetic link in addictive tendencies can also be formulated based on the following research question: “can addiction be traced from genetic links across three generations in ten random family samples?”

Despite the fact that the quasi-experimental approach has limitations in the independence scores of the results when compared to the true experimental approach that adopts randomization, quasi-experimental studies are important in establishing the foundations of a true research (Trochim. 2006). Setting up a quasi-experiment gives findings that assist building the case of the expansive true research with more samples obtained using randomized sampling.

Using survey as a technique to establish addiction only ventures in unverifiable results, which experimental designs facilitate. Quasi experiments deliver results that can be proved experimentally but with a lower score of independence. True experimental approach gives high scores of independence but is more expensive in terms of time and resources than surveys and quasi experiments (Gribbons and Herman, 1997).

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Gribbons, B. & Herman, J. (1997). “True and Quasi-Experimental Designs,” Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 5(14)

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Welsh, A. (2011). “Avoiding Stereotyping and Enhance Intercultural Understanding,” Retrieved from: HYPERLINK “http://journal.teflin.org/index.php/teflin/article/viewFile/243/179” http://journal.teflin.org/index.php/teflin/article/viewFile/243/179