ASSIGNMENT | Cultural Stereotypes

Step 1: Summarizing a source

Write a brief summary of the argument presented in the article above. Remember that summaries do not go into great detail. Your summary should have enough information for the reader to understand the focus (thesis) of the article and how the author supports the thesis. Your summary should contain all the following elements:
Introduce the article by its author and title
Explain the author\’s argument (what does the author claim and what are the supporting reasons)
What the does article tell us about individuality or identity?
Use in-text citations to identify when you are using the author’s ideas.
Quote a passage that struck you as interesting or enlightening and explain why.
Introduce the quotation carefully with a signal phrase, such as, \”Lun, Sinclair, & Cogburn explain that…\”, and
Include an in-text citation including a page number to cite your quotation.

Step 2: Examining Different Viewpoints

One of the most interesting things about stereotypes is how they can affect the actions of those who have been stereotyped. Think of a stereotype you\’re familiar with.
Which came first, the label or the trait?
How can the things that other people say about us affect who we become?

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Cultural Stereotypes

The article titled Cultural Stereotypes and the Self: A Closer Examination of Implicit Self-Stereotyping authored by Janetta Lun, Stacey Sinclair, and Courtney Cogburn focuses on how people non-consciously integrates stereotypes regarding their social groups into self-concepts. However, there is limited evidence to support that negative stereotypes also hold the same concept. People implicitly associate self with the in-group stereotypes to an extent that they associate their self with the group identity as well as the stereotype portrayed by the in-group (Lun, Sinclair & Cogburn, 2009). As such, people associated their self more with the in-group as opposed with the out-group.  In support of this, Lun, Sinclair & Cogburn notes that “women as a group are more likely to associate positive feminine traits in their self-concept as opposed to men (Lun, Sinclair & Cogburn, 2009).”  Also, men associate their…