1. Anticategorical Complexity: Rejects fixed social categories, recognising their fluidity and overlapping nature.
2. Caste: A traditional hierarchical social system in India that divides people into different groups based on birth.
3. Class: A social category based on economic status and wealth.
4. Crenshaw, Kimberlé: The scholar who coined the term "intersectionality" in 1989.
5. Gender: Social roles and identities based on sex; can intersect with other categories like class and race.
6. Intercategorical Complexity: Focuses on how different social categories interact to create complex systems of oppression and privilege.
7. Intracategorical Complexity: Examines the internal diversity within social categories.
8. Patriarchy: A social system in which men hold primary power and dominate roles of political leadership, moral authority, and control.
9. Racism: Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
10. Sexism: Discrimination or prejudice based on gender.