Difference Matters: Communicating Social Identity

3. The assumption that heterosexuality is the standard for defining sexual behavior.
6. Any theory or belief that a person's inherited physical characteristics, such as skin color, hair texture or facial features, determine human intellectual capacity & personality traits.
9. A form of capital as it relates to financial assets.
10. A form of capital that encompasses specialized skills and knowledge such as linguistic and cultural competencies passed down through one's family or developed during experiences in social institutions
11. A physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities
12. A concept that acknowledges complex, compounded consequences of belonging to more than one nondominant group.
14. The differential treatment based on social class or perceived social class.
16. An ideology that contends that poor people collectively embody traits that keep them down.

1. A broad term related to an individual's sexual interests and behaviors, involving biological, cultural, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects.
2. An American social ideal that stresses egalitarianism and material prosperity.
4. The term for people whose brains function differently in one or more ways than is considered standard or typical.
5. The combination of income, education, and occupation.
7. Attitudes towards people or associate stereotypes with them without our conscious knowledge.
8. A form of oppression related to the harboring of negative sterotypes about ones own group.
13. Accumulated goods and their value.
15. Refers to an individual whose brain functions, behaviors, and processing are considered standard or typical.