Social Location and Identity Concepts

An individual's social location is defined as the combination of factors including gender, race, social class, age, ability, religion, sexual orientation, and geographic location.

A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities generally viewed as distinct by society.

Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, femininity and masculinity.

<p>A number of persons or things regarded as forming a group by reason of common attributes or characteristics.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An enduring pattern of romantic or sexual attraction to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A concept in which an oppressed group uses the methods of the oppressing group against itself.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A category that belongs to the realm of ideas, meaning-making, and language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An analytical framework for understanding how aspects of a person's social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A collection of individuals who have at least one attribute in common but do not necessarily interact.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A theory of knowledge that examines the development of jointly-constructed understandings of the world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A political neologism used to group various ethnic groups together based on related cultural origins.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A form of racism embedded as normal practice within society or an organization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A form of racism that is embedded as normal practice within society or an organization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process of creating categories or types.</p> Signup and view all the answers