Stereotyping In Social Work

Stereotyping is defined as judging a group of people with few to no encounters with someone of the minority. The categorization of people is something everyone does knowing and unknowingly on a daily basis. Whether it has to do with: gender, age, race, or sexual orientation. People have preconceptions or pre-formed opinions before meeting people which can cause people to lose out in life before they have even started it. In turn all these missed opportunities can stack up cause people to have a hard time at finding success. Whether it be in the work place or in their social life as. Mainly in finding a job the employer can have a preconceptions about the applicant and what they are capable of doing and handling. If not affect at first later in life when making their way up the work ladder they can be stopped because can have already forming a bias towards them without really evaluating them. Not only can this affect someone’s work life it can carry over into their social life and groups as well. It may seem insignificant but your social life can affect you success too. So

Life outside of work and work life are closely connected with feelings outside of work closely affecting success. If social life is poor it can affect what people do if people have a low work rate they won’t be an affective worker marking it harder for them to earn bonuses, promotions, and raises in their work place. With this set back they may get fired, so with stereotyping of people can cause people to be excluded from group which can also tie into their work. Being friends with people who have connections to people in the field of work someone is going into is important. These people can connect people with the right help to further their success in their line of work. So in turn with poor connections they will be unable to get anywhere in their line of work that may be important and pay