in political science, can someone campare overlapping vs. cross cutting cleavages?

Answer 1

To give a simple example race and class are overlapping because a disproportionate amount of poor people in the United States are Black. But religion and gender are cross cutting as differences of gender to not, in general, reinforcing of differences in religion.

Answer 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleavage_%28Politics%29
I don't know, but wanted to be more helpful than the first poster

Answer 3

just didn't study that in school--majored in party and drinking--excelled in both