CPO-2002 Lecture 19: 4-5-16 Lecture
21 Apr 2016
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Political party a group of people that includes those who hold office and those who help get and keep them there. So a party that is large is counted more than a party that is very small. An attribute is a characteristic that qualifies an individual for membership in an identity. An identity category is a social group in which an individual can place herself. they get. category. Cleavages: attributes can take on different values, attributes are given and self-evident, identity categories are socially-constructed, urban-rural, confessional, secular-clerical, class, post-materialist, ethnic and linguistic. Reinforcing cleavages two correlated cleavages (class and ethnicity) Cross-cutting cleavages two non-correlated cleavages: 1. Small minority downplays social cleavages: 2.
