There is these two words that I have encountered so many times but because I did not know the depth of them I did not understand the weight that they carried up until I did this module Social Anthropology. Stereotype and stigma best describe the ideologies that society has put in place may be beliefs or ideas about a particular group of people or person which often untrue and sometimes partially true 

The danger of a single story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie best describes these words and how language in can manipulated to construct identities and representation of people or society as if you have a single sided story you already have made up a conclusion in your mind about that particular story. As we see the concept of "otherness" displayed in Body and Ritual Among Necirema (1965) By Miner where Necirema's practiced rituals, routines and relegates that were other or different from what society had put in place as "norms" it was then that Necirema's were criticized and stigmatized because of lack or poor understanding of their society

These two authors best describes what I have encountered, I myself have put stereotypes and stigmatization about some of the things happening in society in today's world in place mostly in gender stereotypes more like "Men should be strong ,independent and the primary breadwinner" because that is the stereotype that we grew up nurtured with it is more like a "brainwash" a working man is seen as a man amongst men and an unemployed man is seen as lazy with no direction in life and I think I have learnt that my assumptions of otherness are not mostly true because their only about the single side of the story I was given.