There are lots of similarities between a psychopath and a sociopath but lots of people just group them together as the same thing. There are a couple similarities but most importantly, a lot of differences.
Psychiatrists group them both as having an antisocial personality. A psychopath though is “born with a genetic predisposition that is known to regulate emotions and impulse control”, when a sociopath tends to be made by outside forces such as childhood trauma and physical and/or emotional abuse (Grohol). Neither of them are necessarily violent, but they will try to live a normal life and they will try to hide and ignore their condition. That is what makes them dangerous.
Psychopaths and sociopaths