Q.Explain overlapping and cross cutting social difference.

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OVERLAPPING DIFFERENCES:

1. When some social difference overlaps with other difference. 

2. Situations of this kind produce social divisions, when one kind of social difference becomes more important than the other and people start feeling that they belong to different communities. 
3. Example-a)difference between Black & White in the US becomes a social division because they tend to be poor & landless, and often face injustice & discrimination. 
b) In our country Dalits tend to be poor & landless and often face injustice & discrimination. 
4. Overlapping differences create possibilities of deep social divisions and tensions. 

Overlapping is situation in which factors like poverty, landlessness, discrimination or injustice contributes to social difference to form social divisions and tensions.

Cross cutting is situation in which social classes are equally likely to be rich or poor, thus may result in conflicts but are easier to accommodate

1. Social division takes place when some social difference overlaps with other differences.

1. Social division takes place when some social difference overlaps with other differences.

2. If social differences cross cut one another, it is difficult to pit one group of people against the other.

3. In Northern Ireland, class and religion overlap with each other. If you are Catholic, you are minority and also more likely to be poor, and you may have suffered a history of discrimination.

4. In the Netherlands, class and religion tend to cut across each other. If you are Catholic, you are minority but more likely to be rich, and you may not have suffered a history of discrimination.

5. The result is that Catholics and Protestants have had conflicts in Northern Ireland, while they do not do so in the Netherlands.