Question

Distinguish between overlapping and cross-cutting social differences with
examples

Answer 1

Overlapping social differencerefers to the case when one social difference becomes more powerful, due to the impact of another. As against, the cross-cutting social difference is thesituation when a social differenceis compromised with another...

Answer 2

overlapping :

• this is a kind of social difference where superior community will have more importance.
• eg:in Sri Lanka sinhali language people have more importance where has tamil people have less importance.

cross cutting :

• in this type of society the communities will cross cut each other .
• meaning they all share a common interest in one type topic where as they share different things /interest on another topic
• eg: in Belgium all language people have equal rights.

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