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

being see by the right people and having friends that can help you is important. So when people are pushed out of social groups due to bias it can hurt their success.
In work life many people will have bias because of previous experiences with peoples. With people already searching for a reason to tell a person of it can make it a lot harder to look good in their eyes. This also makes it easier to look unqualified for something. Say if someone were to do the same thing they might not have a problem. But if someone has already been put into a group and labeled they will have a significantly harder time getting past a small mishap. So small problems can become much larger just due to someone being categorized as incapable due to a preconception. Then when it comes around to promotion time the small things will have added up and caused a person to have a cumulative disadvantage because it was more memorable because when the person with a bias towards them see them mess up they mentally make a check mark. Marking off something that was attached to the stereotype adding to the problem. So when moving up the work ladder if there are people with bias it can make it hard for a person to move up in their line of work.
There is also the problem with first getting a job with stereotypes. The preconceptions about who someone can cause an employer to be deterred from asking someone back for an interview after having submitted an application. Next there is the interview which gives people more of a reason to dismiss someone if they aren’t professional. This dismissive attitude towards a minority van make it hard for a person to remain professional in an interview. When people are already dismissive it is easy to notice and can cause a person to feel awkward and make the interview process inaccurate. With an inaccurate interview people will be turned away from jobs. This will affect their success by keeping them from being able to get a job in the field they may have studied for keeping them from reaching success.
In a social setting things can become hard when people push someone away without knowing them.

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

well.
Being part a minority can set people back in life depending on what line of work they want to go into. By directly effecting success for a variety of people including bias based on: ethnicity, race, culture, religion, gender, and age. Which all contribute to stereotyping in the work place. All the abuse and mistreatment that comes with this can lead to many different things. Not only in the work place but in a person’s social life. Their toxic work environment directly affecting their social life. Vice versa their poor social life affects their effectiveness at work. People only tend to look at race and gender for stereotypes. When in reality many other things people have created stereotypes about. These general assumptions about people many seem very insignificant like blonds are dumb or Asians are good at math. When in reality these things can be damaging to someone as a whole. Without knowing anyone can have made these assumptions. Then start looking subconsciously looking for things to confirm these preconceptions about someone. So a closed mind can ruin someone on their path to success.
Stereotyping is a damaging thing that can hurt anyone. Wither it be getting a job, making their way up the work ladder, or having a good social life. It’s a universal thing that affects people knowingly or unknowingly. Keeping people from the success they deserve.