Sentence examples for society misconceptions from inspiring English sources

Despite its prevalence in society, misconceptions about stalking abound.

But he said the bill was crucial to empower disabled people to take action to challenge society's misconceptions.

For one, it can create a stigma around the mentally ill, who already suffer from society's misconceptions, and discourage people from accessing treatment.

The spectacle surrounding the sex scandal of Hot 97 hip hop DJ Mister Cee sheds light onto society's misconceptions of transgender women and those others like myself living gender nonconforming lives.

Her views, similar to many prominent feminists', echo society's misconception that all abused women are weak, uneducated, self-destructive and powerless.

"We hope that this ruling will not have the unintended consequence of reinforcing society's misconception that blind people are unable to function in the world as it currently is," Marc Maurer, president of the National Federation of the Blind, said in a statement.

As Alters and Nelson (2002) eloquently discuss, conceptual misunderstandings of basic evolutionary concepts are rampant throughout all educational levels of our society, and these misconceptions rigidly persist because students have great difficulty displacing preconceived models that explain natural phenomena (Committee on Undergraduate Science Education 1997, p. 28).

My afternoon allowed me to cast away some of the misconceptions society has about live-in sub-dom relationships.

Like so many in society, I had misconceptions about what foster care was, what the children were like, and what foster parents do.

It is the need to debunk society's outdated misconceptions about Asian Americans and the desire to prove that my individuality or self-worth should not be tied down to such shallow traits.

"In my new project 'Perception,' I am questioning the level of judgment and misconception society can unconsciously have upon a community based on their differences".