Social cohesion refers to the sense of togetherness and unity among people in a society. It is when individuals feel connected, trust one another, and work towards common goals, creating a harmonious and inclusive community.
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During the age of growth we've witnessed the loss of climate stability, the loss of biological diversity, and the loss
of social cohesion.
And if it is helpful
for social cohesion, then how is it «confined to a narrow field devoid of relations»?
They highlight the detrimental effects of pervasive insecurity and career competition
on social cohesion within research groups, as well as on training and collaboration.
Peer mediation
promotes social cohesion and aids development of protective factors that create positive school climates.
It draws attention to the failure of Western societies to uphold popular sovereignty and
maintain social cohesion, as the gap between «them and us» becomes far too great.
Schools have reported
improved social cohesion of groups of children and significantly enhanced listening skills and focus of the whole class.
Pilot whales have a
strong social cohesion system which helps them stick together in the open sea, but this means if one gets into trouble, they all do.
However, meaningfully integrated schools provide opportunities for
enhanced social cohesion, cooperation across lines of difference, and eventually greater life incomes.
The role of sanctioned violence was to
ensure social cohesion and relative harmony, but... the threat of violence or abuse was often enough to act as a deterrent to antisocial behaviour.
Contrary to our expectations, we did not find evidence of decline in
social cohesion from 1999 to 2009.
The main function of this form of communication is neither one of conveying information nor of creating feelings, but of
establishing social cohesion.
The teacher's own efficacy varied independently of her views of tight or
weak social cohesion, on average, among elementary schools.
Areas of contention or disagreement are likely to be suppressed in the interests
of social cohesion or out of respect to people who have offered kindness and generosity.
Keep it loose and wrapped around the golden rule which is the closest thing to an «objective» morality since it is useful
for social cohesion.
We believe that a greater understanding of attachment theory can help to
promote social cohesion and better outcomes in terms of physical and emotional health.
Evidence also indicates that application of these approaches can result in new jobs and economic growth that will
enhance social cohesion and prosperity.
As a prominent Tory backbencher dismissed the deputy prime minister's proposal that the rich should face a time - limited tax to avoid a breakdown in
social cohesion as a pre-party conference «easy clap line», the chancellor said the wealthy already paid more tax and the country should be wary of driving away wealth creators.
This task is complicated, however, by the possibility that factors not measured in our data, such as the level of
social cohesion among the students or unmeasured differences in parental engagement, could independently affect both a TES observer's rating and student achievement.
These networks of solidarity are crucial everywhere — they
foster social cohesion, enrich our lives and make our societies more generous, compassionate and resilient.
«However, the findings mean that grammar schools in England
endanger social cohesion for no clear improvement in overall results.
Javid sparked controversy this weekend by saying he was drawn to the idea of the loyalty pledge as a way of countering extremism after the publication of a report on
social cohesion by Dame Louise Casey.
«Looking stressed can help keep the peace: First research to suggest scratching may have evolved as a communication tool to
help social cohesion.»
In recent years Oftsed has looked to ensure schools are promoting «British Values» - a set of ideals which have been set up to bring about
better social cohesion.
This analytical framework allows for the direct intercession of a country's legislator on welfare issues,
strengthening social cohesion that may foster country's economic development.
According to EFE news agency, «the main goal of the meeting will be to set the «Lima agenda against poverty, inequality and exclusion», which will aim to improve the synergy between the two Blocs and strengthen the European cooperation to
achieve social cohesion in Latin America and the Caribbean.»
«I'm sincerely convinced that there is a preventative aspect to this charter and that we are in the process of creating the conditions for
more social cohesion and social peace in Quebec for the years to come.
This is something I outline in a forthcoming Centre for
Social Cohesion report, and have discussed in this week's Weekly Standard.
Co-author Peter DeScioli of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, says
social cohesion demands we have rules, regardless of what they are, to help resolve disputes quickly and peacefully.
This 2014 report by Bruce Fuller, Anisah Waite, Celina Lee Chao with Iza Mari Benedicto begins to illuminate how teachers» ties to each other differ across small schools, and
how social cohesion flows from site - run management.
Overall, we discovered that
perceived social cohesion better predicted teachers» intentions of leaving their school in the coming year or five years out, compared with the weaker influence of intrinsic motivators on intended exit.
Henry Stewart, from Local Schools Network, a campaign group that supports locally maintained schools, said it was «absolute nonsense» to claim free schools would
increase social cohesion, and added: «These are spurious claims for setting up a free school.»
Through Restorative Circles your community will gain a deeper understanding of issues,
create social cohesion, and solve problems.
Far down in history such insistence on uniform custom has commonly emerged when any group, especially if it has conceived itself to be a theocracy, has faced a severe struggle for existence in
which social cohesion was indispensable.
It aimed to see whether the technologies delivered benefits such as increased productivity for rice farmers, improved livelihoods and food security, and
bolstered social cohesion.
If a society actually loses faith in its medium of exchange, a general breakdown of trust and
social cohesion often ensues.
Sociologists who study the Nordic model have found that
social cohesion between citizens and the government goes a long way toward ensuring a (mostly) peaceful society.
In truth, social media is not a telescopic lens — as the telephone actually was — but an opinion - fracturing prism that
shatters social cohesion by replacing a shared public sphere and its dynamically overlapping discourse with a wall of increasingly concentrated filter bubbles.
The fact that Dawson claims English Nonconformity resisted the bourgeois mind because it propagated a religious basis for
social cohesion rather than an economic one should confirm as much.
Between about 1870 and 1970 many countries of the western world did focus their attention on economic policies that promoted
social cohesion at the national level.