POLI 150 - Social Cleavages

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Social Cleavage

social division between two people based on ascriptive characteristic, collective identification, institutional expression of this identification

Salient vs. Latent

Salient: meets all previous criteria about social cleavages

Latent: could become politically important (ex. left handed people lobbying)

Reinforcing vs. Cross Cutting Cleavage

Reinforcing: social and economic differences reinforce each other, making political conflict more intense (ex. race reinforces class)

Cross Cutting: differences pull people in different directions (ex. different religious groups have different political views)

Different types of social cleavages

Religious, racial, ethnicity, linguistic, urban-rural, center-periphery