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Soc101 terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Social stratification | Where members of a society are categorized and divided into groups, which are then placed in a hierarchy |
| Social inequality refers | to an unequal distribution of resources, rewards, privileges, punishments, power, and opportunities among members of society |
| Deviance | behaviors, attributes, or ideas that do not conform to social expectations They violate the social norms and values shared by most people in a culture or social setting |
| A stigma is | an attribute that is socially devalued and discredited It is a label or stereotype that links a person to unfavorable characteristics A label of social disgrace! |
| Disability | A social construct that refers to a physical or mental impairment that limits a person’s ability to fully participate in typical life activities (walking, thinking, seeing, speaking, or hearing Can be visible and invisible!! |
| Status | refers to a socially defined position one occupies in a social hierarchy that comes with certain expectations |
| Master status | a status that overrides others |
| Embodied | located in our physical selves (beauty, able-bodied) |
| Abelism | involves the largely unintended neglect of the conditions of people with disabilities |
| Race | A socially constructed invention used for socially marking groups based on presumed biological/genetic differences |
| Gender | A social construct that refers to roles, behaviors, expressions and identities of girls, women, boys, men, and gender diverse people |
| Intersex | A person born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that does not fit into the binary male/female distinctions The biological sex is ambiguous |
| Define intersectionality | Where a person's race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, etc operate together in a person's life. These things are interwoven and interconnected in a person's life |
| Cisgender | a person whose gender identity aligns with the biological sex assigned at birth We live in a cis-normative society |
| Transgender | Someone whose gender identity does not align with the biological sex assigned at birth |
| Sex | A social construct/social classification that refers to the physical and biological attributes (reproductive organs, chromosomes, hormones) that societies use to assign people in the category male or female. |
| Privilege | A special right, immunity, or benefit granted to a group. It gives status and power to members of the groups with those advantages It has nothing to do with merit or ability |
| Prism of Difference | -gender is organized and experiences differently when examined through other categories of difference like race, class, sexuality, disability, etc |
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