Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
40 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Stigma
|
A powerfully negative label that greatly changes a person's self concept and social identity.
|
|
|
Sex
|
The biological distinction between females and males
|
|
|
Primary Sex Characteristics
|
The genitals, argans used for reproduction
|
|
|
Secondary Sex Characteristics
|
Bodily development, apart from genitals, that distinguishes biologically mature females and males
|
|
|
Intersexual People
|
People whose bodies (including genitals) have female and male characteristics
|
|
|
Transexuals
|
People who feel they are one sex even though biologically they are the other
|
|
|
Incest Taboo
|
A norm forbidding sexualrelations or marriage between certain relatives
|
|
|
Sexual Orientation
|
A person's romantic and emotional attraction to another person
|
|
|
Heterosexuality
|
Sexual attraction to someone of the other sex
|
|
|
Homosexuality
|
Sexual attraction to someone of the opposite sex
|
|
|
Asexuality
|
A lack of sexual attraction to people of either sex
|
|
|
Homophobia
|
Discomfort over close personal interaction with people thought to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual
|
|
|
Pornography
|
Sexually explicit matrial intended to cause sexual arousal
|
|
|
Prostitution
|
The selling of sexual services
|
|
|
Quer Theory
|
A body of research findings that challenges the heterosexual bias in the U.S. society
|
|
|
Heterosexism
|
A view that labels anyone who is not heterosexual as "quer"
|
|
|
Abortion
|
The deliberate termination of a pregnancy
|
|
|
Gender
|
The personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being male or female
|
|
|
Gender Stratification
|
The unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women
|
|
|
Matriarchy
|
A form of social organization in which females dominate males
|
|
|
Patriarchy
|
A form of social organization in which males dominate females
|
|
|
Sexism
|
The belief that one sex is superior to the other
|
|
|
Minority
|
Any category of people distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a society sets apart and subordinates
|
|
|
Intersection Theory
|
Analysis of the interplay of race, class, and gender, often resulting in multiple dimensions or disadvantage
|
|
|
Gender Roles (sex roles)
|
Attitudes and activities that a society links to each sex
|
|
|
Sexual Harassment
|
Comments, gestures, or physical contacts of a sexual questure that are deliberate, repeated, and unwelcome
|
|
|
Feminism
|
Support of social equality for women and men, in opposition to patriarchy and sexism
|
|
|
Race
|
A socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important
|
|
|
Ethnicity
|
A shared cultural heritage
|
|
|
Prejudice
|
A rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people
|
|
|
Stereotype
|
A simplified description applied to every person in some category
|
|
|
Racism
|
The belief that one racial category is innately superior to another
|
|
|
Scapegoat
|
A person or category of people, typically with little power, whom other people unfairly blame for their own troubles
|
|
|
Discrimination
|
Unequal treatment of varios categories of people
|
|
|
Institutional Prejudice and Discrimination
|
Bias built into the operation of society's institutions
|
|
|
Pluralism
|
A state in which people of all races and ethnicities are distinct but have equal social standing
|
|
|
Assimilation
|
The process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture
|
|
|
Miscegenation
|
Biological reproduction by partners of different racial categories
|
|
|
Segregation
|
The physical and social separation of categories of people
|
|
|
Genocide
|
The systematic killing of one category of people by another
|
