Deborah Masters's sculpture is one of several works involved with sexual and social stereotypes.

A stock character is a fictional character based on a common literary or social stereotype.

Several other commentators have stated that the books present a highly stratified society including many social stereotypes.

Such optimism about the human condition is very different from the dominant social stereotype of old age.

Grenville's early fiction presented characters trying to free themselves from social and gender stereotypes.

The use of prisoners only proliferates social stereotypes and denigration.

The artist says each collar represents a social stereotype, but the message is buried in the medium.

Gossip may not be a female prerogative, but it certainly is so in the social stereotype of women.

Working to eliminate social stereotypes would be more effective and better for everyone in the long run.

It is therefore particularly important that the new forms of parental leave do not reflect or reinforce existing social stereotypes.