please define OVER GENERALIZATION?

Answer 1

(I have no clue what the above answers are trying to say about overgeneralizations.)

Within the social sciences are findings about human behavior. We can say that a normative pattern of behavior presents itself, such as most people over 30 drive a car. To say most people drive a car when they're in their 30s would be a generalization. To say everyone in their 30s drives a car (or that they should drive a car) would be an overgeneralization. When you assume someone is supposed to drive a car when they are in their 30s based on something like a normative finding, that's an overgeneralization.

Here's another example: Some research suggests that high testosterone levels may be a reason that some men act so violently. When you begin to say that testosterone explains why all men act violently, that's an overgeneralization.

Part of the problem with studies about culture and society is that they tend to overgeneralize about the way of life that people have within a specific culture, as if everyone's way of life is easily defined from the general or "average" behavior pattern found when observing the larger group. This tendency homogenizes people to the extent that overgeneralizations become too common.

Overgeneralizing can even lead to stereotypes and prejudice based on the overgeneralization (as is being done with Islam and a handful of Muslim extremists. Many people assume the problem is Islam itself, but that is an overgeneralization).

Answer 2

Since you posted this in the Sociology section, I will give you a Sociology oriented answer.

Over generalization is to assume that the whole of a group is as it is just because some of the people in that group are that way. For example: since some Islam are terrorists and the media talks about Islam when they carry out a terrorist act, people who generalize will say that all Islams are terrorists, or that most of them are. I'm sure Christians carry out terrorists act, maybe they're just not on TV. If you say that all the poor steal, just because a certain sector of the poor do steal, that would be a generalization. You would be taking a particular situation or scenario, specific cases, to the general, to the universal...

Answer 3

Over Generalization , for example might states that all serial killers will have stated characteristics when the fact is that not all serial killers will act the same ways. They don't all act the same. Some have different M O's. Generalization says that all people will act the same way and over generalization pushes it 10 times further.

Answer 4

Overgeneralization Example

Answer 5

Generalization explains by itself, to say or write over generalization is for me:Redundacy
Redundancy is the unnecessary use of either needless or superfluous text, by which one repeats, in duplication, the same, identical, aforesaid things over and over again, beyond what would be needed or required to explain, or make comprehensible, the intended or signified meaning of that which one wishes to convey. Customarily, it is usually common in redundancy to repeat, sometimes with different phrasing or words, the same idea or reasoning, thus restating one's thoughts, sometimes paraphrasing oneself and effectively saying the same thing twice, or double.

Answer 6

were all to blame for all the worlds problems. All men are B****rds, all women are nutters,etc,etc.........