Question

What do you mean by overlapping and cross cutting social differences explain with examples

Answer 1

Overlapping differences
when one social difference becomes more important than the other
this leads to social divisions and disintegration of country


cross cutting differences
when one social community disagrees on an issue with the other community, and both may have agreed on some other issue
these are easy to accomodate3 in a country and don't lead to the country's disintegration