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Key Assessment: Stereotypes and Barriers to Critical Thinking Unit 2 Key Assignment: Stereotypes and Barriers to Critical Thinking Estimated time to complete: 10 Hours Instructions: In this course so far we have discovered stereotypes and how they can have an impact from the perspective of others. For this key assignment you will be conducting research and writing a paper on stereotypes and how they act as barriers to critical thinking. Please follow these guidelines and questions: Specifically you will be investigating and researching stereotypes that personally affect you or interest you. You could research stereotypes that affect you as a student, your gender, your culture, your religion or even age. You could look into a stereotype that is associated with your chosen profession or activities you do. The important aspect to remember is that your voice and experience should be the main focus on the project, and your sources and research should back up and support what you have to say. Consider these questions: Why did you choose this stereotype? Provide background on why you choose the stereotype you did, and why it is important to you to write about. How does this stereotype affect you? What impact has it had, or might it have, in your life? How does this identified stereotype act as a barrier when critical thinking is concerned? What is the importance of being able to think critically when dealing with stereotypes? What steps could you take to change the perception or influence this stereotype has in your life? You may discuss more than one stereotype in your paper. Remember to keep personal voice throughout the paper, but support your thoughts with cited research. The research paper must be a minimum of 750 words and include multiple resources. You must use APA formatting for any citations and referenced sources used. You must also include a bibliography (a reference page) in APA formatting. Please add the reference

Answer 1

A stereotype is a fixed general image and set of characteristics which people believe that particular person or thing has. Stereotype is a fixed unbending generalizations,which is maintained irrationalIy. There is no logical base to believe such assumptions, and thus leads to illogical reasoning and irrational decisions. Few of such assumptions are like people in countryside are more friendly than the city residents. Only males can be better engineers. Sports people are generally tall and have sound physique.

I have chosen a stereotype that it is the general perception of the population that females are not meant for ruf and tuf jobs and they are little risk aversive. In most of the societies females are not supposed to step out of the house during night time. They are being treated as soft people and are being overly protected by the parents. As a result during my professional career I have not been assigned any tasks which are considered to be male dominated areas. Thus, as a result it hindered my growth in the professional career. I was ready to take up the challenging tasks but the manager had a stereotype that females are meant for soft tasks only.

Stereotypes typically prevents the people and shuts down their ability to critically assess the difference in cultures and prevent them from appreciating the diversity of the culture,values, behavior and social structures. As a result people are not able to observe the difference and diversity of the female gender and remain with the same perception.

In order to overcome this barrier, people should be educated about the variations and diversity of various cultures.

They should be given certain examples where the set of people have done something extraordinary beyond the stereotype. Thus it would change their perception and make them aware of the diversity of the culture and group of people.

References

D'Souza, F. Z. (2007). Become the CEO your mom wanted you to marry: Women who shatter the glass (the social and cultural construction of gender stereotypes among a sample of women in business) (Order No. 3261312). Available from ABI/INFORM Global. (304849397). Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/docview/304849397?accountid=177636

Sharma, A., & Dunay, A. (2016). "DISABILITY IS NOT CONTAGIOUS, IGNORANCE IS": A CRITICAL OVERVIEW ON THE VARIOUS SHADES OF DISABILITY. Paper presented at the 256-267. Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/docview/1858230670?accountid=177636