Lesson 2- Identity, Intersectionality, and Human Diversity

Question 1

Identity

Answer 1

The characteristics that is, or the characteristics that are, used to define an individual or collection of individuals.

Question 2

Aggregate

Answer 2

A collection of individuals in the same location at the same time.

Question 3

Category

Answer 3

A collection of individuals who share at least one characteristic but are otherwise unrelated.

Question 4

Social group

Answer 4

Two or more individuals who identify and interact with each other.

Question 5

Culture

Answer 5

Everything that people have, think, and do as members of a group or society.

Question 6

Society

Answer 6

A social group that contains distinct social structures and institutions and, as such, is relatively self-sustaining.

Question 7

Social Structures

Answer 7

Relatively stable arrangements of statuses and roles that persist over time.

Question 8

Statuses

Answer 8

Social positions are occupied by individuals.

Question 9

Roles

Answer 9

The expectations of how to think, act, and feel are associated with a specific social position.

Question 10

Social Institutions

Answer 10

Sets of social structures and cultural ideologies that fulfill the needs and/or wants of a society.

Question 11

Intersectionality

Answer 11

A recognition of the ways in which social structures make the complex identities of individuals the consequence and vehicle of vulnerability and privilege.

Question 12

Vulnerability

Answer 12

A characteristic that increases the likelihood of unfavorable and/or undesirable experiences.

Question 13

Privilege

Answer 13

Any advantage that is available and afforded to an individual, category, or group that was not earned is derived from the structures and institutions that surround them.