The three main points my paper will focus on will be: the social barriers faced by nerds in life, the success of nerds in the workplace, and that nerds have a more fulfilling social life. The sources I researched determined that nerds often have a harder time expanding their social life because of predetermined ideas that the public has. They don’t see nerds portrayed as “cool” in normal pop culture at all. These ideas can roll straight into the heads of the public and then they act upon it. Some of these barriers are similar to the ones placed upon homosexuals and African Americans by older media. Today the media wouldn’t pick on African Americans or Homosexuals, but they don’t think that nerds are off the list. The next topic is nerds having success in the workplace. Companies want to hire nerds because they are thinkers, rather than simply following the directions that they are given. They want employees to bring something new to the table and give a different perspective, and nerds can do that. They can also fully understand what a company does in a management position. This is something a company looks for compared to someone who is only talented in a management position. The last topic is nerds having a more fulfilled social life. The idea behind this is that they learn to make better friends because they’re not part of the “cool” crowd. Nerds often get dissed by the cool crowd, so they turn to others within their own community. Nerds wont judge what you look like or how many followers you have, they will like you for who you are.
More information about the sources used for this research can be found in my synthesis matrix here
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