30212
Advanced seminar
WiSe 21/22: Recent Advances in Social Cohesion Theory and Research
Christian von Scheve
Information for students
ACHTUNG! Diese LV wird in Präsenz durchgeführt, siehe Raumangaben.
CAUTION! This course will take place in presence. Check the location info.
CAUTION! This course will take place in presence. Check the location info.
Comments
Social cohesion has (again) become a vibrant field of sociological research. What are the processes and mechanisms that produce or undermine communal life in modern societies? What renders societies resilient against disruptive and disintegrative forces? These questions seem all the more pressing regarding the substantial social changes and challenges of the contemporary world, for instance globalization, digitalization, climate change, and transnational migration. Although social cohesion is a concept that is known to sociologists since Emile Durkheim, it still remains ill-specified, covering neighboring concepts such as solidarity, social integration, belonging, pro-sociality, and shared values. In this seminar, students will become familiar with different understandings and definitions of the concept of cohesion. Furthermore students will read and discuss a range of empirical studies on the concept of cohesion from different perspectives, roughly following a micro- to macro-social logic, including works on group cohesion, network cohesion, neighborhood cohesion, societal-level cohesion and transnational cohesion in a European perspective. close
Suggested reading
- Schiefer, D., & Van der Noll, J. (2017). The essentials of social cohesion: A literature review. Social Indicators Research, 132(2), 579-603.
- Chan, J., To, H.-P., & Chan, E. (2006). Reconsidering social cohesion: Developing a definition and analytical framework for empirical research. Social Indicators Research, 75(2), 273–302.
- Fonseca, X, Lukosch, S., Brazier, F. (2019). Social cohesion revisited: a new definition and how to characterize it. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 32(2), 231-253.
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2021-10-19 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2021-10-26 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2021-11-02 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2021-11-09 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2021-11-16 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2021-11-23 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2021-11-30 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2021-12-07 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2021-12-14 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2022-01-04 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2022-01-11 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2022-01-18 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2022-01-25 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2022-02-01 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2022-02-08 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2022-02-15 16:00 - 18:00