Categorization vs Stereotype - What's the difference?
categorization | stereotype |
A group of things arranged by category; a classification.
The process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes.
*2013 , (James Gleick), "Wikipedia's Women Problem", New York Review of Books , 29 Apr 2013:
*:It’s fair to say that Wikipedia has spent far more time considering the philosophical ramifications of categorization than Aristotle and Kant ever did.
A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
(printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
(psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
(UML) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language
To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
To print from a stereotype.
(figurative) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
* Duke of Argyll (1887)
As a noun categorization
is a group of things arranged by category; a classification.As a verb stereotype is
.categorization
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(wikipedia categorization)Alternative forms
* (mainly British) categorisationNoun
(en noun)stereotype
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(wikipedia stereotype)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(stereotyp)- to stereotype the Bible
- Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.