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Deconstructing social cohesion: towards an analytical framework for assessing social cohesion policies
Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
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Deconstructing social cohesion: towards an analytical framework for assessing social cohesion policies
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| Creator |
Fenger, Menno
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Public Administration, Social Policy
social cohesion, local policies, trust, social capital |
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| Description |
Academics as well as policy-makers consider social cohesion as an important quality of cities. A high level of social cohesion is associated with a wide variety of positive characteristics of cities: for instance low crime rates, high economic growth, low unemployment and happy citizens. This has lead to a wide variety of policy initiatives explicitly or implicitly aimed at increasing social cohesion. The perceived importance remarkably contrasts with the lack of a clear definition and a widely agreed-upon analytical framework. The lack of conceptual consensus may be explained by the complexity of the concept. It has multiple dimensions and can be found on different institutional levels: from the level of states to the level of local neighbourhoods. In this article I develop an analytical framework that builds upon these multi-dimensional and multi-level characteristics and connect this with an attempt to classify policies aimed at increasing social cohesion.
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Doctoral School of Sociology, Corvinus University Budapest
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2012-12-06
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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application/pdf
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http://cjssp.uni-corvinus.hu/index.php/cjssp/article/view/52
10.14267/cjssp.2012.02.02 |
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| Source |
Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy; Vol 3, No 2 (2012)
2062-087X 2061-5558 |
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| Language |
eng
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http://cjssp.uni-corvinus.hu/index.php/cjssp/article/view/52/43
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