This document discusses representations and stereotypes related to various social groups. It outlines how media can represent gender, age, ethnicity, sexuality, class, status, physical ability, region, and more. It also discusses common stereotypes associated with these groups, such as age stereotypes portraying old people as frail with grey hair and teenagers as moody, or gender stereotypes depicting feminine people as liking pink and cooking and masculine people as liking cars and science. Overall, the document examines how social groups are often portrayed and stereotyped in media.
2. Media representations are the way in which the media
portrays a particular
groups, communities, experiences, ideas or topic form a
particular perspective.
REPRESENTATIONS
3. ⢠Male and Female are not representations of gender
where as masculine and feminine are.
REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER
4. ⢠Babies
⢠Toddlers
⢠Children
⢠Teenagers
⢠Young adults
⢠Adults
⢠Elderly people
REPRESENTATION OF AGE
5. ⢠British
⢠American
⢠Greek Cypriot
⢠African
⢠Australian
⢠Turkish
⢠Mexican
REPRESENTATIONS OF
ETHNICITY
7. Class
⢠Upper class
⢠Lower class
⢠Second class
⢠Middle class
⢠Working class
Status
⢠Leader
⢠Beginners
⢠Royals
⢠Government
⢠Parents
REPRESENTATIONS OF CLASS
AND STATUS
8. Mass media represents disability to be generally negative. People with
disabilities are shown to not have their own identities and often live under care
of someone else.
Typical representation are that they are pathetic, pitiful and innocent.
REPRESENTATIONS OF PHYSICAL
ABILITY/ DISABILITY
9. ⢠Country side
⢠Essex
⢠City
⢠Village
⢠Newcastle
⢠London
⢠Norfolk
REPRESENTATION OF REGIONAL
IDENTITY
11. Old people:
⢠Grey hair
⢠Wrinkles
⢠False teeth
⢠Bad hearing
⢠Crippled
AGE STEREOTYPES
Teenagers:
⢠Spotty
⢠Loud
⢠Listen to music
⢠Moody
Babies
⢠Snotty
⢠Stupid
⢠Small
⢠Chubby
⢠cute
12. Feminine:
⢠Like pink
⢠Like flowers
⢠Like cooking
⢠Like make up
GENDER STEREOTYPES
Masculine:
⢠Like cars
⢠Like Blue
⢠Like getting dirty
⢠Like science
13. French people:
⢠Sell onions
⢠Eat snails, French stick
and frogs legs
⢠Wear stripes
⢠Wear berets
ETHNIC STEREOTYPES
Jamaican people:
⢠Eat jerk chicken
⢠Wear colourful hats
⢠Have dread locks
⢠Bob Marley
⢠Smoke ganja
English people:
⢠Gentlemen and
ladies
⢠Wear top hats
⢠Wear bowler hats
⢠Play polo and tennis
⢠Have walking sticks
⢠Drink tea
14. Homosexual males:
⢠Camp
⢠Wear pink
⢠Act feminine
⢠Get highlights
⢠Care about there looks
SEXUALITY STEREOTYPES
Homosexual females:
⢠Butch
⢠Act manly
⢠Have piercings
⢠Act masculine
⢠Have cropped hair
15. Upper class/Posh people
⢠Snobby
⢠Rude
⢠High self importance
⢠Have private education
CLASS AND STATUS STEREOTYPES
Lower class people
⢠Live in council flats
⢠Live on benefits
⢠Have wreckless children
⢠Get in trouble with the law
Business people
⢠Carry a brief case
⢠Travel on trains
⢠Read broad sheet news papers
⢠Wear suits and ties
16. People in wheelchairs
⢠Are nerds
⢠Wear glasses
PHYSICAL ABILITY AND
DISABILITY STEREOTYPES
Physically able people
⢠Are sporty
⢠Go to the gym
⢠Look after their body
Physically disabled people
⢠Are week
⢠Helpless
⢠Needy
⢠A burden
⢠Pitiful
⢠Bitter (chip on shoulder)
17. People live in the country
⢠Live on a farm
⢠Wear informal clothes
⢠Have a country accent
⢠Are not very
clever/uneducated
⢠Laid back
⢠Own a gun
REGIONAL IDENTITY
STEREOTYPES
People from cities and towns
⢠Have well paid jobs
⢠Wear suits
⢠Travel on trains
⢠Live in modern pent houses
People from Newcastle
⢠Wear Tarty clothes
⢠Party a lot
⢠Donât have self respect
⢠Drink a lot
⢠Work out
People from Essex
⢠Dress up smart
⢠Wear dresses
⢠Fake tan
⢠Fake nails
⢠High heels
⢠Speak in a particular
way
18. Verisimilitude is the quality of appearing to be close to real life. For example a
TV soap, such as EastEnders is not real life because no one lives life like they
do. TV dramas take the basics of life and over exaggerates it
VERISIMILITUDE
