Race and Gender Stratification
- Race, as a social construct, is a group of people who share similar and distinct physical characteristics. Social conceptions and groupings vary over time, involving folk taxonomies that define essential types of individuals based on perceived traits.
- An ethnic group is a socially defined category of people who identify with each other based on common ancestral, social, cultural or national experience.
- Sexual orientation is an enduring pattern of romantic or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender.
- Ethnocentrism is judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one's own culture.
- Ageism is stereotyping and discriminating against individuals or groups on the basis of their age.
