When Lick and Johnson studied this social categorization in the laboratory, they found that people categorized as gay were viewed less favorably than people categorized as straight, in part because their sexual orientation and gendered appearance were processed more slowly.
With categorization, people learn about new concepts through an internal transfer of knowledge.
We felt that if we let the film fall into categorization, people could place it in a space that would make them feel safe.
There's a growing middle class in the entertainment industry now, and it's made up of people who defy categorization, who are writers, and performers, and sort-of-comedians but not really.
"How much longer are we as a society willing to marginalize and scapegoat working-class and poor white people in our categorization of them as "white trash," and how much longer will white people of lower socioeconomic backgrounds refer to themselves in such demeaning terms internalized from the dominant culture?
Tags will make the site much easier to explore by clicking through other peoples' terms of categorization instead of a stab in the dark full text query for terms similar to your own.
In your article you take issue with using "vulnerable" as a blanket categorization of people.
Perhaps, like Trump's simplistic categorization of people by race, this "good guy/bad guy" nonsense is a way to avoid thinking about the complexities of modern life and the changes that are actually needed to make it safe -- in other words, to protect the status quo.
For example, if people react faster to the categorization of chlamydia with 'threatening' than to the categorization of chlamydia with 'neutral', we infer an implicit association of chlamydia with threatening over the neutral.
Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization.
