People are complex, ... Why do we resort to or accept the labelling of others? Here are some reasons. ... d) It may be due to carelessness and bad habits. e) We may fear and be suspicious of others. f) We may lack critical thinking skills. g) We may have been brought up with prejudice. h) We may use labels to control others.
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people claim that labeling is a bad thing , but people have the need belong. there for we label so that you have some where to belong and sociolise with others of your label. ... This is what labeling people means. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Not all labels are negative. Not all of it involves dehumanizing...
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To me this suggests that labelling doesn't occur on a high cognitive level like, say, communication. Labelling people stems from a general tendency to label our surroundings which relates to the very way we think in the first place.
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This is a bad thing, but it isn't so bad if you have no power over the person that you are labeling, and are only hurting yourself. The real problem arises when you have any level of control ... When I was a middle-school aged kid, I was labeled as a kid that went to middle school by many people when they first saw me.
bork.hampshire.edu/~alan/historical/home/edussays/Label... bork.hampshire.edu/~alan/historical/home/edussays/LabelingPeople.html
Date: 1/9/2001 3:33:00 PM From Authorid: 23993 I think labeling people is very bad because they possibly don't like it and it just seems they do ... Labelling is basically lazy - it's a shorthand for dealing with other people because we'd all rather not believe that people are unpredictable and changeable.
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So is it a few bad apples that spoil a barrel? "That's what we want to believe--that we could never be a bad apple," Zimbardo said. "We're the good ones in the barrel." But people can be influenced, regardless of their intention to resist, he said.
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In order to understand the factors that lead good people to behave in a bad way, we can turn to the work of Albert Bandura[11]. Bandrua has spent many years studying the factors that lead to moral disengagement. His major findings ... Euphemistic labelling – language is very important as it shapes and frames our thoughts.
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But, is that the way it always works? Is that the only way people become bad? Do people become bad at all? Or, are some people, in fact, born bad? ... But the whole issue of 'bad people' quickly devolves into unanswerable questions of how you define good and bad.
www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/19/193444/034
Two stories illustrate what happens when people who are expected to do “liberal” things suddenly turn around and succeed using politically incorrect means. ... Again my bad, forget what you read above. Never happened.
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You can tear down their specific claims about a particular group of people point by point, but in the end the racist simply hates people in that group. It’s not rational, or logical, or reasonable. ... Finally, you have those who believe that anything that’s not natural and has been created in a lab must be bad for you,
blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/08/30/anti... blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/08/30/antivax-people-are-antivax/