CHILDREN'S EXPOSURE TO STEREOTYPES

Children's Exposure to Stereotypes

Children's Exposure to Stereotypes

Introduction

A stereotype is a social construct, a textually based assertion of what a given individual should be. A stereotype is also a representation. Whenever something represented, something is always left out of the account, and this discontinuity is central to the meanings we derive; however, a stereotype leaves so much out of the account it operates more as a fiction than a reliable portrayal of an identity. The discontinuity in a representation leads to a desirousness to retrieve lost reality and in what has been left out of the account, resulting both in readings that occur despite what has been left out of the account, and in misreading because of what has been left out of the account.

Discussion

The more left out, the greater the scope of possible misreading and the likely emergence of stereotyped understandings and oversimplifications based on the preponderance of absences. Stereotypes cut closely only to the most obvious regularities and irregularities of the human body type and behavior. In recent years, TV networks have been aimed, and more gender and vicious stereotype programs have occupied their schedules. Media Experts and Psychologists such as Dr. George Gerbner of University of Pennsylvania have evolved scales to estimate the destruction and death that goes into American homes every day. Sociologists have analyzed the probable affects of this attitude to the world. Since even a small look at every week cartoon programs exposes, that children disclosed to a firm amount of aggression that outmatches that of the prime-time shows their parents so willingly see. Kids' cartoons have conventionally applied a lot of genders, and violence stereotype, and this is something we have discovered to assume as normal. The coyote chase the roadrunner and finds standing in midair over an obscure opening. For a ...