A major criticism for biological explanations for gender is the claim that biology ignores cultural and historical variability among men and women such as the role of power. 

How is culture accomplished?

Heterosexism is an ideology and a set of institutional practices that privilege “straight” people and heterosexuality over other sexual orientations. 

________ views culture as being created and maintained by the ways people interact and in how individuals interpret each other’s actions.

This concept states that people experience their world through their language, therefore, they understand their world through the cultural meanings embedded in their language.

Intersex and transgender are interchangeable terms. 

Constructivism is an extension of symbolic interaction theory which proposes that reality is what humans cognitively create it to be.

When a researcher works as a server in a diner, lives as a homeless person for months, or regularly joins police officers for “ride alongs” on patrol to record their daily activities it is called:

Conflict theory is a macro-level approach to social phenomena.

Reification is an awareness of the relationship between a person’s behavior and the wider culture that shaped the person’s choices and perceptions.