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| The personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being female of male |
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| The unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women |
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Social organizations where males dominate |
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| social organization where females dominate |
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Believing that one sex in innately superior to the other |
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| attitudes and activities that a society links to each sex |
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| any category of people distinguished by physical or cultural differences that a society sets apart |
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| the investigation of the interplay of race, class, and gender, often resulting in multiple dimensions of disadvantage |
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| comments, gestures, or physical contact of a sexual nature that are unwanted |
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| the advocacy or social equality for men and women, in opposition to patriachy |
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| Primary sex characteristics |
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| the genitas, organs used for reproduction |
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| Secondary sex characteristics |
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| bodily development, apart from the genitals, that distinguishes mature females or males |
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| people who have both female and male anatomy (including genitals) |
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| people who feel they are one sex even though biologically they are the other |
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| a norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives |
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| a person's romantic and emotional attraction to another person |
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| No sexual attraction to either sex |
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| the dread of close personal interaction with people thought to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual |
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| a growing body of research finding that challenges the heterosexual bias |
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| a view stigmatizing anyone who is not heterosexual as "queer" |
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| wages or salary from work and earnings from investments |
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| the total value of money and other assets, minus outstanding debts |
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| Intragenerational Social Mobility |
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| a change in social position occuring during a person's lifetime |
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| Intergenerational Social Mobility |
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| upward or downward social mobility of children in relation to their parents |
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| the deprivation of some people in relation to those who have more |
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| a deprivation of resources that is life-threatening |
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| the trend by which women represent an increasing proportion of the poor |
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| an unfair generalization about a group of people |
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| Institutional prejudice and discrimination |
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| bias inherent in the operation of society's institutions |
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| a state in which people of all races and ethnicities are distinct but have social parity |
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| the process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture |
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| biological reproduction by partners of different racial categories |
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