Taxonomy

Social group – a subset of the population that shares an identity trait, which may be fixed, contextual, or socially constructed..

Social bias – a subjective and normative term to refer to disparate treatment or outcomes between social groups that arise from historical and structural power asymmetries.

Protected Attribute – A protected attribute is a shared identity trait that determines the group identity of a social group..

Group Fairness – A framework that captures the relationships between social groups. Can be looked at as a weak notion of fairness that can be satisfied for each group while violating fairness constraints for subgroups of social groups.