| A | B |
|---|
| Deviance | Recognized violation of cultural norms |
| Crime | Violation of society's formally enacted criminal law |
| Social Stratification | System by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy |
| Social Mobility | Change in position within the social hierarchy |
| Caste System | Social stratification based on ascription |
| Class System | Social stratification based on both birth and individual achievement |
| Global Stratification | Patterns of social inequality in the world as a whole |
| High-Income Countries | Richest nations with the highest overall standards of living |
| Middle-Income Countries | Nations with a standard of living about average for the world as a whole |
| Low-Income Countries | Nations with a low standard of living in which most people are poor |
| Gender | Personal traits and social postions that members of a society attach to being female or male |
| Gender Stratification | Unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women |
| Patriarchy | Form of social organization in which males dominate females |
| Matriarchy | Form of social orginazation in which females dominate males |
| Sexism | Belief that one sex is innately superior to the other |
| Gender Roles | Attitudes and activities that a society links to each sex |
| Race | Socially constructed category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important |
| Ethnicity | Shared cultural heritage |
| Minority | Any category of people distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a society sets apart and subordinates |
| Prejudice | Rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people |
