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According to the explained video in the module (which is summarizing work by sociologists Conley, Massey, Denton, Shapiro, and others) what is one of the primary reasons for the wealth gap between White families and Black and Latinx families today?

Noting that two crimes can be quite similar but the differential punishments depend on the relative power of the parties involved is a hallmark of the _______________ paradigm. 

Deepak travels to Jordan for a semester of study. Every morning he walks to the corner stand and buys fresh, delicious falafal and hummus for breakfast, even though this is not what he is used to eating at home. Rather than thinking of this food as weird, he takes a ________________________ approach and simply sees it as different.

Disentangling what is ‘natural’ about gender from what is learned about gender is so difficult because:

__________% of the world’s prisoners are incarcerated in the U.S., even though Americans are only 5% of the global population.

Gender ______________ in the division of labor exists around the world according to researcher George Murdock. 

The ___________________________ paradigm looks at the way that everyday behaviors collectively create social institutions.

In the “Levels of Racism” article, _______________ racism pertains to how a person feels about themselves. 

Evidence which may be observed is known as: 

A person’s _____________ refers to their physical body as male, female, or intersex.