| A | B |
|---|
| race | category of men and women who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society deem socially significant |
| ethnicity | a shared cultural heritage |
| prejudice | a rigid and irrational generalization about an entire category of people |
| racism | the belief that one racial category is innately siperior or inferior to another |
| assimilation | the process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture |
| sex | the biological distinction between females and males |
| gender | the significance that members of a society attach to being female or male |
| gender roles | attitudes and activities that a society links to each sex |
| matriarchy | a form of social organization in which females dominate males |
| dependency theory | model of economic development that explains global inequality in terms of historical exploitation of poor societies by rich societies |
| multinational corporation | a large business that iperates in many countries |
| caste system | social stratification based on ascription |
| class system | social strarification based on both birth and indicidual achievement |
| ideology | cultural beliefs that justify social stratification |
| relative poverty | deprication fo some people in relation to others who have more |
| absolute poverty | deprivation of resources that is life-threatening |
| deviance | the recognized violation of cultural norms |
| crime | the violation of a society's formally enacted criminal law |
| stigma | a powerfully negative label that radically changes a person's self concept and social identity |
| hate crime | a criminal act against a person of a person's property by an offender motivated by racial or other bias |
