Social Categorization and State Sanctioned Homophobia

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Social Categorization and State Sanctioned Homophobia

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  1. Ashley Borjan presenting for raising awareness on
  2. social categorization and state sanctioned homophobia.
  3. State sanctioned homophobia is when there are laws designed by
  4. the government that target members of its lbgt community.
  5. Some laws include forcing lbgt organizations to register as foreign agents
  6. banning
  7. depictions of homo homosexuality in front of young people,
  8. which includes the use of flags and denying members of lbgt groups
  9. from organizing parades.
  10. Typically,
  11. these types of homophobic attitudes incite violence
  12. towards members of the lbgt community.
  13. Russia has created an environment that is a
  14. very good example of state sanctioned homophobia.
  15. In 2014, there was a call for a boycott
  16. of the Olympics that were being held there
  17. an overview of the issue,
  18. prejudice and in group favoritism creates discrimination,
  19. which creates stereotyping, which in turn creates more prejudice.
  20. It's a vicious cycle
  21. the image to the left will show
  22. and a cycle of these events.
  23. The cause,
  24. the principles of social psychology as they apply.
  25. The cognitive component of our perception of group members is the stereotype,
  26. which is the positive or negative belief that we
  27. hold about the characteristics of a social group.
  28. In addition to our stereotypes, we may also develop prejudice
  29. and unjustifiable negative attitude towards an out group too,
  30. or towards the members of that out group.
  31. Our stereotypes and prejudice are
  32. problematic because they may create discrimination
  33. which is unjustified negative behaviors towards members of
  34. out groups based on their group members,
  35. stereotypes and prejudice have are pervasive and often pernicious
  36. influence on our responses to others
  37. and also in some cases our own behaviors,
  38. discrimination is a major societal problem because it is so pervasive,
  39. it takes on many forms and has such negative effects on so many people.
  40. The effect
  41. of social categorization and stereotyping
  42. thinking about others in terms of their
  43. group membership is known as social categorization.
  44. The natural cognitive process by which we place individuals into social groups.
  45. Social categorization occurs when we think of someone as a man versus a woman,
  46. an old person versus a young person, a black person versus an asian person and so on.
  47. The solution,
  48. there are some benefits to social categorization.
  49. In some cases we categorize because doing so provides us with information
  50. about the characteristics of people who belong to certain social groups,
  51. things to consider.
  52. Although thinking about others in terms of their social category memberships
  53. has some potential benefits for the person who does the categorizing
  54. categorizing others rather than treating them as
  55. unique individuals with their own unique characteristics has
  56. a wide variety of negative and often very
  57. unfair outcomes for those who are categorized.
  58. one problem is that social categorization distorts
  59. our perceptions such that we tend to exaggerate the differences between
  60. people from different social groups while at the same time,
  61. perceiving members of groups
  62. and particularly out groups as more similar to each other
  63. than they actually are
  64. this over generalization makes it more likely that we will think
  65. about and treat all members of the group the same way
  66. spread the world,
  67. rid yourself of unconscious bias.
  68. How can you help
  69. avoid making sweeping statements about people?
  70. Use inclusive terms,
  71. have honest conversations about stereotypes and create inclusive environments.
  72. And that is the summary of um
  73. social categorization and state sanctioned homophobia.