| age grade | an age category in a society that is formally named and recognized; usually an important part of the social structure
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| age set | a set of individuals that belong to the same age grade
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| berdache | a French-language term used historically in Western scholarship to refer to an individual in Native American Plains societies who is biologically one gender, but who dresses and behaves as the opposite gender
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| gender roles | the culturally constructed behavior associated with the different sexes, which are taught to children during the process of socialization
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| gender stratification | prestige-based ranking of genders based on the societal value placed on their tasks
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| masculinist studies | a perspective, parallel to feminist studies, that focuses on the culture-specific constructions of male social roles
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| nadleehi | A traditional Navajo term for either men or women in shifted gender roles
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| queer theory | a perspective on the discussion of sexual and gender classifications that challenges traditional dichotomous definitions of sex, gender and sexual behavior
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| religious fundamentalism | a term applicable to all religions that claims to value a return to religious ideas of a previous time
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2003 McGraw-Hill Higher Education