social cleavages and political parties

🪓 (get it its a type of CLEAVer) (losing my mind)

social cleavages

lasting divisions in society made up of attributes

attributes

self-evident qualities intrinsic to people

ingredients needed to make a social cleavage

* social stratification
* corresponding cultural systems
* organisations that express these cleavages

lipset and rokkan theory

social cleavages exist due to critical historical events

identity categories

a social group an individual can place themselves in

cross-cutting cleavages

attributes that aren’t correlated

reinforcing cleavages

attributes that are correlated

political entrepreneur

someone who is unprincipled and wants to win votes