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________ focuses on mismatches between anatomical sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, not just division into male/female or homosexual/hetereosexual. By so labelling their discipline, scholars reject the effects of labeling; instead, they embraced the term and reclaimed it for their own purposes.

Poverty can become ________, meaning that the consequences of poverty perpetuate further causes in an ongoing cycle.

By 1705, Virginia passed which of these laws? .

Whether they are legal or illegal immigrants, because they have high population numbers, ________ are often the target of stereotyping, racism, and discrimination as well as being singled out for documentation checks by police officers. Simply not having appropriate documentation then, becomes a crime in states like Arizona.

________ describes shared culture, ancestry, nationality, or even religion.

Which of these terms represents the ideal of the United States as a “salad bowl” where a mixture of different cultures is accepted and tolerated with each culture retaining its own identity and being valued equally with mutual respect on the part of all cultures, both dominant and subordinate?

The term sociologists use to describe physical or physiological differences between males and females, including both primary and secondary sex characteristics is referred to as a person’s _________

A ________ would likely study ways the minority group in a society have been oppressed by laws and overt racism by the dominant society.

What is a conclusion reached by symbolic interactionists regarding social stratification?

Which theory suggests we cannot separate the effects of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and other attributes when we examine the advantages and disadvantages of race?