Research - Moral Panic - Richard Dyer - Sterotypes

Richard Dyer - The Role of Stereotypes


"Stereotypes are a form of 'ordering' the mass of complex and inchoate data that we receive from the world are only a particular form"

"The word stereotype is almost a term of abuse"

"Stereotypes are a very simple, striking, easily grasped form of representation"

"Lippmann refers to stereotypes as a projection of on to the world"

"The stereotype is taken to express a general agreement about a social group, as if that agreement arose before, and independently of, the stereotype"

"Stereotypes form a list of people, therefore people are associated"

"The role of stereotypes is to make visible the invisible"

"The stereotypes are seen as a way of categorising people and belittling them"

"Stereotypes in the media are a way of representing people or certain thing. It helps us understand the meaning of it more if we can associate them with something in our heads"