Question

what is difference between cross cutting and overlapping social differences

Answer 1

Overlapping differences is the mixture of one or more differencescaused by one maindifference.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.(example)racial or linguistic

Answer 2

Heya,

To be simple,

Overlapping differences are the differences in which a particular section or caste contains all the rich and high officials and a particular section which contains all poor and uncivilised people.

Example :- Northern Ireland

While,

Cross-cutting differences are the differences in which all the sections have both rich poor people i.e, people of a particular section contain both rich and poor people.

Example:-Netherlands


Hope it helps u. ....