POLI 150 - Cleavages

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Social Cleavages

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

Salient vs. Latent

Salient: meets all previous criteria for social cleavages

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

Other Types of Cleavages

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

Reinforcing vs. Cross Cutting Cleavages

Reinforcing: social and economic cleavages reinforce each other making political conflict more intense

Cross Cutting: differences pull people in different directions, instead of reinforcing them

Class Cleavage

Divisions based on economics