Meaning of stereotype in English

Examples of stereotype

stereotype
The back of the menu, like the club name, inverted another old female stereotype, this time women's supposed cattiness among themselves.
This article will argue that this stereotype is equally unacceptable.
It was further decided to compare the evaluations of stereotypes by young and older adults.
Not surprisingly, stronglybuttressed social stereotypes are extremely tenacious; nevertheless, they can be a poor basis for scientific work.
Drawings as well as travel accounts were used as a database of ready-made stereotypes for those who used the literature of travel as referential background.
However, in an earlier stage to collaborative approaches, the user modeling community provided a different answer, namely the stereotype approach.
It is little wonder that many elderly people should try to dissociate themselves personally from the false stereotype.
These essays challenge the stereotype of a male pioneer migration, establishing patterns and decisions that women would later follow.
Currently, stereotypes are always "hand-crafted", based on empirical observations like user type analysis or sales data.
This is evident when cultural stereotypes become self-fulfilling prophecies.
Second, once formulated, speaker stereotypes are amenable to strategic manipulation to the extent that they are consciously grasped by social actors.
Besides deviant, the more popular stereotype of the convent was that it was both unnatural and unproductive.
Is it that feminine girls report more contradictions in contexts where they feel they may be acting inappropriately by violating feminine stereotypes of behavior?
The contradictions and overdeterminations of their construction as stereotypes in the newspapers, cartoons, fictions, and polemics of the period are obvious.
The contributors included in this volume provide evidence, they suggest, that ' later life is a configuration of experiences that transcends stereotypes ' (p. 7).
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Collocations with stereotype

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common stereotype
This illustrates the common stereotype that men did not do magic.
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cultural stereotype
Relating women to their bodies is a cultural stereotype.
ethnic stereotype
This discourse had confined him to an ethnic stereotype that prevented him from becoming an artist in his own right.
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Translations of stereotype

in Chinese (Traditional)
(尤指錯誤的)刻板印象,老套俗見,成見, 對…形成刻板的看法, (尤指)對…有成見…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(尤指错误的)模式化印象,老一套,成见, 对…形成模式化的看法, (尤指)对…有成见…
in Spanish
estereotipo, catalogar, estereotipar…
in Portuguese
estereótipo, estereotipar, rotular…
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basmakalıp tip, kalıplaşmış örnek, klişe…
stéréotype [masculine], stéréotyper, stéréotype…
固定観念(こていかんねん), 形式化(けいしきか)する…
stereotype…
stereotyp…
stereotyp…
stereotip…
ทัศนคติทั่วไป…
khuôn mẫu…
stereotyp, postrzegać lub przedstawiać w sposób stereotypowy…
stereotaip…
das Stereotyp…
stereotyp [masculine], stemple, stereotype…
стереотип…
стереотип, стереотипировать, придавать шаблонность…
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