Terrible Magnificent Sociology Key Terms: Social Identities (p62): the socially constructed categories and subcategories of people in which we place ourselves or are placed by others Distinction (p63): active efforts to affirm identity categories and place ourselves and others into their subcategories Positive Distinction (p64): the claim that members of our own groups are superior to members of other groups In-group Bias (p64): preferential treatment of members of our own group and mistreatment of others Minimal Group paradigm (p65): the tendency of people to form groups and actively distinguish themselves from others for the most trivial of reasons Social Identity theory (p65): the idea that people are inclined to form social groups, incorporate group membership into their identity, take steps to enforce group boundaries, and maximize positive distinction and in group success Sexual Minorities (67): people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or otherwise non heterosexual Race (p67): a socially meaningful set of artificial distinctions falsely based on superficial and imagined biological differences Psychological Wage (p68): a noneconomic good given to one group as a measure of superiority over other groups One-Drop Rule (p69): the idea that anyone with any trace of black ancestry should be considered black Blood Quantum rule (p70): a law limiting legal recognition of american indian to those who have at least a certain level of documented indigenous ancestry Ethnicity (p70): an identity based on collective memories of a shared history and distinctive culture Gender (p71): the ideas, traits, interest and skills that we associate with being biologically male or female Sex (p71): a reference to physical traits related to sexual reproduction Gender Binary (p71): the idea that people come in two and only two types, males who are masculine and females who are feminine Intersex (p71): people with physical characteristic typical of both people assigned male and female at birth Cisgender (p71): people who are assigned male at birth who identify as male as well as females at birth who identify as women Transgender (p71): people assigned male at birth but don't identify as men as well as people assigned female at birth but don't identify as women Nonbinary (p71): people who identify as both man and women or neither man or woman Stereotype (p71): clusters of ideas attached by social convention to people with specific social identities