| A | B |
|---|
| Social Interaction | people act and react in relation to others |
| Role Set | number of roles attached to a single status |
| Personal Space | surrounding area over which a person makes some claim to privacy |
| Master Status | has special importance for social identity, often shaping a person's entire life |
| Ascribed Status | social position a person receives at birth or takes on involuntarily later in life |
| Social Group | two or more people who identify and interact with one another |
| Network | a web of weak social ties |
| Triad | social group with three members |
| In-Group | social group toward which a member feels respect and committment |
| Out-Group | social group toward which a person feels a sense of competition or opposition |
| Obligarchy | the rule of the many by the few |
| Secondary Group | large and impersonal social group whose members pursue a specific goal or activity |
| Bureaucractic inertia | tendency of bureaucratic organizations to perpetuate themselves |
| Sex | biological distinction between females and males |
| Incest Taboo | norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives |
| Heterosexuality | sexual attraction to someone of the opposite sex |
| Bisexuality | sexual attraction to people of both sexes |
| Transsexuals | people who feel they are one sex even though biologically they are the other |
| Prostitution | selling of sexual services |
| Asexuality | no sexual attractive to people of either sex |
