Sex can be defined as the biological and physiological characteristics of a male or female individual. These characteristics include reproductive organs, chromosomes and hormones.

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Gender and Sexuality

- Race
- Ethnicity
- Gender
- Sex
- Sexual Orientation/Sexuality
- Religion
- (Dis)ability status
- Social Class

Examples of Social Identity Categories

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A Sociology Experiment

Gender can be defined as socially constructed characteristics of women, men, people outside the expected binary. Some examples being norms, roles and relationships among and between groups of women and men.



Gender is a nonexplanitory measure, meaning gender can not be counted as the cause of a difference in population statistics. Learned behaviors or differences in physicality, among other things, can be counted as explanitory information.

Gender

Sexual orientation (or sexuality) has multiple dimensions and is a person's identity in relation to the gender(s) they are physically and/or emotionally attracted to. It concerns an individuals romantic, emotional, and/or erotic attraction towards others (or the absence of).

Sexual Orientation

Socially constructed groupings of people that are defined by shared physical or biological characteristics. 

Race (as a Social Identity)

A social class is a group of individuals that share similar economic positions based on income, occupation wealth and education.

Social Class

Disability status refers to a person’s disabilities or lack thereof. A disability status refering to a lack of disabilities may include: able bodied, temporarily able bodied, neurotypical.

Disability Status

Religious identity is one's senese of belonging to a religious community and/or culture.

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