grouping and stereotyping?

Question

Is "grouping people" not the exact same think as stereotyping? If we put someone in a "group" are we not stereotyping who they are?

Answer 1

Grouping tends to be a "positive" action. Stereotyping can be either negative or positive, depending on the motive.

Grouping practices, also referred to as ability/homogeneous grouping or tracking, separate students according to their perceived achievement and ability. This is done to provide instruction based on their perceived achievement/ability levels. Grouping students in this manner can lead to a ‘self-fulfilling’ prophecy of low performance. The results is an achievement gap that is often permanent and irreversible.

Stereotypes, are incomplete and inaccurate beliefs that some people hold about groups of other people.

Generalizing is a natural human behavior and is an attempt to simplify and categorize experiences. We naturally compare what we don't know to what we do know -- or think we know.

Answer 2

Grouping only becomes stereotyping if we assume a group shares characteristics beyond what the group definition states. I can be grouped as a short person. It's not a stereotype to say that I am short based on my membership in that group. It would be a stereotype to assume that I am opinionated or that I have small feet or anything else based on other members of that group.

Answer 3

Stereotyping is, by definition, "to make conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conceptions, opinions, or images." Emphasis here on "oversimplified"- to stereotype is to expand something to all people in spite of evidence to the contrary.

For example, you see one gay man who is very flamboyant and believe that all gay men are that way. That's stereotyping.

Grouping, however, doesn't have to be stereotypical if all the people in the group actually do share the same qualities and identify as being a group. Usually, for grouping to be non-stereotypical, it needs to come from the group itself, not other people, and it needs to be flexible enough to accommodate differences, so that it doesn't become a stereotype.

Hope that helps.

Answer 4

These two do tend to have certain similarities as in they put people with similar characteristics together, but with stereotyping, we are analyzing a smaller group of a certain type of people and concluding that all in the group are the same.

Answer 5

Some of the principles overlap but they aren't identical concepts. Grouping is a way for us to see the similarities and assigning understanding based on those similarities.

Stereotyping is when we think of a group and automatically assign all of the groups characteristics (or perceived characteristics) to each member.

Answer 6

i believe they're founded on precise commentary, however there's no absolute...many elements play into behaviors and there may be a lot more to a individual than located movements. while comedians do imitations of any person in an race organization they do not must give an explanation for what it's b/c it is visible to everybody, so definite, a few behaviors arise extra usually in unique businesses.

Answer 7

Grouping is different in that it implies that the people being grouped are different but share a common trait.

Answer 8

I think it is damaging to group people and steriotype people, because everyone is an individual. Sure, sociologists group pepople, in regards to race, ethnicity, age, disability.. however, grouping by individuals of other individuals can sometimes lead to steriotyping.