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Shaun King
Shaun King, American activist and writer, rose to prominence in the 2014 Ferguson protests, led The North Star, Real Justice PAC, and Grassroots Law Project, and faces recurring fundraising-accountability disputes.
Shehla Rashid
Shehla Rashid Shora, Indian academic and former JNU students' union vice president (2015), led 2016 sedition-case protests, joined Shah Faesal's J&K People's Movement, faced a 2019 sedition case later withdrawn, and now teaches sociology in Budgam.
Shelby Steele
Shelby Steele (born 1946, Chicago) is an American essayist, former San Jose State English professor, and Hoover Institution senior fellow; author of The Content of Our Character (1990 NBCC Award) and White Guilt, known for critiques of affirmative action and victimization politics.
Shere Hite
Shere Hite (Shirley Diana Gregory, 1942–2020), American-born German feminist sex researcher, author of The Hite Report on Female Sexuality (1976), which reported most women do not orgasm from penetrative intercourse and sold over 50 million copies.
Shidduch (שידוך)
Shidduch (שידוך; plural shidduchim) is a match between two single Jews for the purpose of marriage, arranged by a matchmaker called a shadchan and practiced mainly in Orthodox communities.
Shirley Phelps-Roper
Shirley Phelps-Roper, Westboro Baptist Church spokesperson, daughter of founder Fred Phelps, defendant in Snyder v. Phelps, mother of defectors Megan and Grace, banned from the UK.
Shooting of Jacob Blake
The shooting of Jacob Blake occurred August 23, 2020, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, when officer Rusten Sheskey fired seven rounds into Blake's back, leaving the 29-year-old partially paralyzed; state and federal reviews ended without charges.
Shoshana Strook
Shoshana Strook (Strock), daughter of Israeli National Missions Minister Orit Strook, publicly accused her parents and a brother of ritual child sexual abuse in 2025 and was found dead in northern Israel in March 2026.
Shotgun wedding
Shotgun wedding: a hurried marriage prompted by the bride's pregnancy, historically coerced by the bride's father, from the American frontier. Once the US norm until the 1970s, it declined after abortion and contraception liberalization, driving most of the rise in out-of-wedlock births.
Shulamith Firestone
Shulamith Firestone (1945–2012), Canadian-born radical feminist, founded Chicago Radical Women, New York Radical Women, Redstockings, and New York Radical Feminists, and wrote The Dialectic of Sex (1970) and Airless Spaces (1998).
Sibling
Sibling: a brother or sister sharing at least one parent, including full, half, step, and adoptive siblings. 82.22% of US youth lived with a sibling in 2010; warmth, low conflict, and equal treatment predict better mental health.
Sibling relationship
Sibling relationship: the emotional bond between brothers and sisters, often a person's longest close relationship. Covers what shapes its quality (attachment, parental differential treatment), links to child psychopathology, adult outcomes, twins, only children, and the life course.
Sibling-in-law
Sibling-in-law: a relative of one's generation connected by marriage, either a spouse's sibling or a sibling's spouse; gendered forms brother-in-law and sister-in-law; extended sense covers a spouse's sibling's spouse (co-sibling-in-law).
Siemens family
Siemens family, German industrial dynasty of Werner von Siemens (1816–1892), founder of Siemens & Halske (1847). Brothers Carl and William ran St. Petersburg and London subsidiaries; family controlled the firm into the postwar era and retains about 6% of Siemens AG.
Significant other
Significant other (SO): a gender-neutral term for a spouse or long-term romantic partner that presumes nothing about marital status or orientation; in sociology and psychology it instead means anyone, such as a parent or peer, who strongly shapes a person's self-concept.
Silvia Federici
Silvia Federici (born 1942, Parma) is an Italian feminist scholar and Wages for Housework co-founder, professor emerita at Hofstra University, author of Caliban and the Witch (2004), which links witch-hunts to capitalist primitive accumulation.
Simeon Boikov (Симеон Бойков)
Simeon Boikov (Симеон Бойков), aka "Aussie Cossack", is an Australian-born pro-Russian activist and disinformation distributor, hiding in Sydney's Russian consulate since 2023, granted Russian citizenship in 2023, EU-sanctioned in 2025, and tied to Storm-1516 paid amplification.
Simon Leviev (שמעון יהודה חיוט)
Simon Leviev (Shimon Yehuda Hayut), Israeli con man who posed as diamond heir Lev Leviev's son to defraud Tinder matches; subject of 2022 Netflix film The Tinder Swindler; convicted in Israel 2019, arrested in Georgia 2025.
Simone and Malcolm Collins
Simone and Malcolm Collins are American pronatalist advocates, founders of the Pronatalist Foundation and hosts of the podcast Based Camp, known for IVF with embryo IQ screening, Techno-Puritanism, Trump administration policy drafts, and the Hope Not Hate city-state proposal.
Simp
Simp is internet slang for someone, usually a man, showing excessive devotion to a romantic interest without reciprocation. Clipped from "simpleton" (1903), it spread via hip-hop, the manosphere, and TikTok's 2019 Simp Nation trend.
Sindhutai Sapkal
Sindhutai Sapkal (सिंधुताई सपकाळ), the 'Mother of Orphans', Indian social worker from Maharashtra who raised over a thousand orphans, founded multiple ashrams, and received the Padma Shri in 2021; died in Pune on 4 January 2022.
Sineenatha
Sineenatha (Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi, born Niramon Aunprom/Ounprom, 1985) is the Royal Noble Consort of Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn, appointed July 2019, demoted October 2019, reinstated August 2020; distinct from the Telugu poet Śrīnātha.
Single parent
Single parent: a person raising children without a co-resident spouse or partner, also called lone parent. Definitions vary by agency; about 25% of US children and 10-25% of OECD children live in single-parent households.
Single person
Single person: an unpartnered adult, often in a one-person household. Distinguished from living alone, social isolation, and loneliness; US one-person households reached 29% in 2025.
Sissy
Sissy is a derogatory American term for a man or boy perceived as weak or effeminate. It originated from the word sister in the late 1800s.
Sister Wives
Sister Wives is a TLC reality series (2010–) about Kody Brown, his legal wife Meri, spiritual wives Janelle, Christine, and Robyn, their plural marriage, the Brown v. Buhman lawsuit, and the family's later collapse.
Sit-in
Sit-in: a nonviolent direct-action tactic of occupying a space and refusing to leave, also called sit-down. Known for the 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins, 1936–37 labor sit-down strikes, and the 28-day 1977 Section 504 occupation.
Situationist International
The Situationist International (Internationale situationniste) was a Marxist avant-garde group founded in 1957 at Cosio d'Arroscia, Italy, and dissolved in 1972, known for the dérive, détournement, Debord's Society of the Spectacle, and its influence on May 1968 and punk.
Sixties Scoop
The Sixties Scoop, also known as the Canada Scoops, was the mass removal of Indigenous children in Canada to non-Indigenous homes from the late 1950s into the 1980s.
Slacktivism
Slacktivism (slactivism), also called clicktivism or hashtag activism, is low-effort online support for causes, coined positively in 1995 by Fred Clark and Dwight Ozard, now a pejorative with mixed research verdicts.