Book Description
Essays examine the impact of social networks and collective action on growth and other economic outcomes, contributing to understanding of the interaction between economic processes and their social framework.
Author : Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 38,9 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780802037367
Essays examine the impact of social networks and collective action on growth and other economic outcomes, contributing to understanding of the interaction between economic processes and their social framework.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 38,48 MB
Release : 2011-11-18
Category :
ISBN : 9264113150
This report analyses the impact of “Shifting wealth” on social cohesion, largely focusing on high-growth converging countries.
Author : Lisa F. Berkman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 24,73 MB
Release : 2000-03-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195083316
This book shows the important links between social conditions and health and begins to describe the processes through which these health inequalities may be generated. It reviews a range of methodologies that could be used by health researchers in this field and proposes innovative future research directions.
Author : Jane Jenson
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 26,89 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Social indicators
ISBN : 9781849290234
Examines the literature on social cohesion. Presentsa range of indicators that have been used to measure social cohesion.
Author : European Commission. Directorate-General for Regional Policy
Publisher :
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 12,97 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Regional policy
ISBN :
Author : John Bruhn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 21,43 MB
Release : 2009-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 144190364X
Sociologists and anthropologists have had a long interest in studying the ways in which cultures shaped different patterns of health, disease, and mortality. Social scientists have documented low rates of chronic disease and disability in non-Western societies and have suggested that social stability, cultural homogeneity and social cohesion may play a part in explaining these low rates. On the other hand, in studies of Western societies, social scientists have found that disease and mortality assume different patterns among various ethnic, cultural and social-economic groups. The role of stress, social change and a low degree of cohesion have been suggested, along with other factors as contributing to the variable rates among different social groups. Social cohesion has been implicated in the cause and recovery from both physical and psychological illnesses. Although there has been a large amount of work established the beneficial effects of cohesion on health and well-being, relatively little work has focused on HOW increased social cohesion sustains or improves health. This work is based on the premise that there are risk factors, including social cohesion that regulate health and disease in groups. One of the challenges is how to measure social cohesion – it can be readily observed and experienced but difficult to quantify. A better understanding of how social cohesion works will be valuable to improving group-level interventions.
Author : Christian Albrekt Larsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199681848
The book explores the ways in which social cohesion — measured as trust in unknown fellow citizens — can be established and undermined. It examines the US and UK, where social cohesion declined in the latter part of the twentieth century, and Sweden and Denmark, where social cohesion increased, and aims to put forward a social constructivist explanation for this shift. Demonstrating the importance of public perceptions about living in a meritocratic middle class society, the book argues that trust declined because the Americans and British came to believe that most other citizens belong to an untrustworthy, undeserving, and even dangerous 'bottom' of society rather than to the trustworthy middle classes. In contrast, trust increased amongst Swedes and Danes as they believed that most citizens belong to the 'middle' of society rather than to the 'bottom'. Furthermore, the Swedes and Danes came to view the (perceived) narrow 'bottom' of their society as trustworthy, deserving, and peaceful. The book argues that social cohesion is primarily a cognitive phenomenon, in contrast to previous research, which has emphasized the presence of shared moral norms, fair institutions, networks, engagement in civil society etc. The book is based on unique empirical data material, where American survey items have been replicated in the British Social Attitude survey and the Danish and Swedish ISSP surveys (exclusively for this book). It also includes a unique cross-national study of media content covering a five year period in UK, Sweden, and Denmark. It demonstrates how 'the bottom' and 'the middle' is differently constructed across countries.
Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Proceedings of a one-day Forum for the Future conference held in December 1996
Author : Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 20,49 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789287157423
This publication contains guidance on developing a methodological framework for social cohesion indicators which can be applied at local, regional, national and European levels, covering the conceptual approach used and its practical application. It sets out the results of the main applications and trials carried out in 2003 and 2004 and how they tie in with devising a framework of action.
Author : Alex C. Michalos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 7347 pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 2014-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400707528
The aim of this encyclopedia is to provide a comprehensive reference work on scientific and other scholarly research on the quality of life, including health-related quality of life research or also called patient-reported outcomes research. Since the 1960s two overlapping but fairly distinct research communities and traditions have developed concerning ideas about the quality of life, individually and collectively, one with a fairly narrow focus on health-related issues and one with a quite broad focus. In many ways, the central issues of these fields have roots extending to the observations and speculations of ancient philosophers, creating a continuous exploration by diverse explorers in diverse historic and cultural circumstances over several centuries of the qualities of human existence. What we have not had so far is a single, multidimensional reference work connecting the most salient and important contributions to the relevant fields. Entries are organized alphabetically and cover basic concepts, relatively well established facts, lawlike and causal relations, theories, methods, standardized tests, biographic entries on significant figures, organizational profiles, indicators and indexes of qualities of individuals and of communities of diverse sizes, including rural areas, towns, cities, counties, provinces, states, regions, countries and groups of countries.