Search results for "Stereotypes"

Studying the Cognitive Map of the US States: Ideology and Prosperity Stereotypes Predict Interstate Prejudice

2018

What are the spontaneous stereotypes that U.S. citizens hold about the U.S. states? We complemented insights from theory-driven approaches to this question with insights from a novel data-driven approach. Based on pile sorting and spatial arrangement similarity ratings for the states, we computed two cognitive maps of the states. Based on ratings for the states on ∼20 candidate dimensions, we interpreted the dimensions that spanned the two maps (Studies 1 and 2). Consistent with the agency/socioeconomic success, conservative-progressive beliefs, and communion (ABC) model of spontaneous stereotypes, these dimensions that participants spontaneously used to rate the states’ similarity included…

Scenari dell'alterità: rappresentazioni diacroniche di italiani in Irlanda.

2019

Il saggio intende offrire un'analisi diacronica delle rappresentazioni letterarie dello stereotipo dell'italiano nella letteratura anglo-irlandese moderna e contemporanea. Partendo da riflessioni teoriche sul concetto di alterità e studi critici di Imagologia, si cerca di individuare eventuali variazioni diacroniche dovute a mutati contesti storico-sociologici (Brexit).

Creating an image of people with disabilities in formal education. Analysis of the textbooks used in the chosen European countries

2016

Creating an image of people with disabilities in formal education is an important element of educating young people into a full and unbiased understanding of the needs and reality of these people. Consequently, it is an element of creating a social climate around people with disabilities and influencing state policy in this area. Therefore, I find it extremely important to analyse and compare ideas worked out in different countries in order to correctly assess our own situation and find inspiring and applicable solutions. In the text, I focused on one component of the system of formal education, i.e. selected textbooks used in Poland and Sweden in which I highlighted their disability-relate…

French Fries, French Foxes and Crazy Frenchmen in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994) and Roger Avary's Killing Zoe (1994) : Reading Hollywood “F…

2010

International audience; This article focuses on the representation of Frenchness in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and Roger Avary's Killing Zoe, which were both released in 1994 and made by directors who regularly collaborated at the time. The treatment of Frenchness is different in both films, Pulp Fiction containing several anecdotal references and one French character, while Killing Zoe takes place in France with an almost exclusively European cast. The representation of Frenchness in these films will be my starting point to determine the readings possible for a spectator who is or is not familiar with French and French culture. “Frenchness,” which Pierre Verdaguer has shown is genera…

Brand social representations: strategic perspectives for a fitness club

2009

International audience; The aim of this study was to identify an accurate tool to enable fitness club managers to discover those opinions or stereotypes which represent obstacles to joining their organisations. Starting with brand image, the analysis then considered social representations as relevant constructs for apprehending these opinions or prejudices. The use of a word association task and the model of basic cognitive schemes (Rouquette, 1990; 1994) provided access to the salient elements of the social representations of a particular sport brand and the way they are structured. The procedure combining these two stages represented a diagnostic tool for identifying the attractive and un…

Finnish culture in British and Finnish newspapers : a case study of the Valo-festival

1999

Od buntu do wyzwolenia. Image kobiety nieobyczajnej według Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Françoise Sagan i Marguerite Duras

2018

Tożsamość (także płciowa) kobiety w przestrzeni domu, w historii, kulturze i na drogach emancypacji odzwierciedla niejako jej walkę o wolność. W kontekście faktów kulturowych, obyczajowych i etycznych inspirowanych przez teorię gender niniejszy artykuł ma na celu refleksję nad kwestią obrazu kobiety transgresywnej w literaturze francuskiej XX w. Zagadnienie to rozpatrywane jest w odniesieniu do sfery jej życia osobistego oraz przyjmowanych przez nią określonych ról społecznych i publicznych, przy uwzględnieniu perspektywy historycznej i antropologicznej, związanej ze specyfiką oraz mentalnością Francji XX stulecia. Spod pióra Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Françoise Sagan or…

Victims, villains or organized community? : discrimination, social exclusion and empowerment in the media representation of urban poverty : case of b…

2012

The purpose of this thesis is to study the media representation of urban poverty in a developing country context, focusing specifically on the connections between media representation and social exclusion. The theoretical-methodological basis of this work draws from critical cultural studies and sociological media research, specifically from the theoretical assumptions of critical discourse analysis about media representation. The premise is the constructionist view that the media does not directly reflect the reality of urban poverty, but constructs journalist reproductions of it from a particular perspective and in a certain social context. Media representation of the subordinated groups …

Use of ethnic humor in modern stand-up comedy

2012

Swój – Obcy – Inny. Brexit i jego społeczne konsekwencje

2017

The main subject of this article are social consequences of the results of the referendum regarding UK departure from the structures of the European Union. The author focuses on the social repercussions in the perception of British citizens and “foreigners” in the face of potential leave the European community, referred to as “Brexit”. The main focus of the author are still current issues of diversity, division “us” versus “foreigners”, stigma and social exclusion. The author based on the analysis of existing materials and a focus group interview presents how the stereotypical perception of reality can affect the development of mutual prejudices