In To Kill a Mockingbird, what are the different types of social attitudes in Maycomb?Apart from racism, are there any other social attitudes in...

According to Jem, there
are

"... four
kinds of folks in the world. There's the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors,
there's the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at
the dump, and the Negroes."  (Chapter
23)

Jem isn't
really far off on this assessment of his little world of Maycomb, since the social
status of the four groups he names are well-defined in the text. However, Scout is not
quite as cynical.

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"Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of
folks. Folks."  (Chapter
23)

Alexandra
believes the Finch family ranks at the top of the Maycomb social scale because of their
"gentle breeding." She has opinions about every family in
Maycomb.

She
never let a chance escape her to point out the shortcomings of other tribal groups to
the greater glory of our own.  (Chapter
13)

According to
Alexandra, everyone in Maycomb

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... had a Streak: A Drinking Streak, a Gambling
Streak, a Mean Streak, a Funny Streak.  (Chapter
13)

Atticus, of
course, treats everyone in town the same. Mr. Avery is suspicious of children. The
drug-addled Mrs. Dubose is angry at everyone. Miss Caroline, fresh out of college,
believes she is the leading educational authority in the town. Most of the women in the
story are highly opinionated and love to gossip.

Scout
outlines the "caste system" of Maycomb (in Chapter 13) by
explaining that the older generation of the town was marked by their consistent
predictability, whose attitudes and behaviors were then passed down to the next
generation.

The novel is filled with minor, eccentric
characters, most of whom are social outcasts in some way or
another.

• Tutti and Frutti Barber were maiden
  sisters--both deaf, both Republicans--who lived in the only house in Maycomb with a
  cellar.


• A wagonload of Mennonites pass by on the day of
  the trial. They live deep in the woods and trade on the other side of the river. The
  men's beards are a source of amusement for Jem.


• And then
  there's Boo Radley, whose reclusive ways mark him as the greatest outcast of them
  all.