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The Social Cohesion Measures Contributing to Resilient Disaster Recovery: A Systematic Literature Review

Journal of planning literature
Many people experience disasters that cause anxiety due to relocation and uncertainty about when they can return to normal. Thus, by systematically reviewing the literature using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses ...
Saeideh Sobhaninia
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Building Social Cohesion

Administration & Society, 2013
While material gain continues to be a leading motivator for corrupt acts, this study shows that social status and kinship responsibilities should also be considered possible precursors to corruption. This finding has important implications for constructing an appropriate understanding of corruption, designing anticorruption policies, and achieving ...
Alexandru V. Roman, Hugh T. Miller
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Living alone, social cohesion, and quality of life among older adults in rural and urban China: a conditional process analysis

International Psychogeriatrics, 2020
Objectives: To test the independent and combined impact of social cohesion and geographic locale (urban/rural) on quality of life (QoL) for older adults in China.
D. Burnette   +3 more
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Neighborhood Social Cohesion Associates with Loneliness Differently among Older People According to Subjective Social Status

The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging, 2020
Objectives To examine whether neighborhood social cohesion can alleviate the negative impact of low subjective social status on feelings of loneliness. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting Community, Hong Kong. Participants Older people who participated
R. Yu   +6 more
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Neighborhood, social cohesion, and the Elderly's depression in Shanghai.

Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2019
Neighborhood plays an important role in the provision of elderly care in the context of rapid population aging and dwindling traditional family support in China.
Jia Miao, Xiaogang Wu, Xiulin Sun
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Social Cohesion Effects on Spatial Cohesion

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1981
A systems analysis of groups implies that strengthening the social bonds among group members should increase their spatial cohesion, that is, moving to avoid an invasion of the group's space. Male and female subjects (N = 48) received false information that a female confederate had very similar or dissimilar opinions.
Eric S. Knowles, Mary A. Brickner
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Social Cohesion as an External Factor Affecting Families: An Analysis of the White Paper on Families in South Africa

SOUTHERN AFRICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, 2020
Social cohesion is beneficial to economic restructuring, social change, and political action. At its core, it involves building shared values and communities of interpretation, reducing disparities in wealth and income, and generally enabling people to ...
Fred Bidandi, Nicolette V Roman
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Diversity and social cohesion

Intercultural Education, 2014
In the last few years there has been a growing tendency on the part of some social sciences researchers to adopt a broad definition of diversity (including, for instance, not only cultural values, but also gender, age, socio-economic status, and sexual orientation) and to use this term as a synonym of "the other", the non-ego.
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Social cohesion: from research to practice

2017
This chapter highlights the need to put research results into practice through policy recommendations. This was a key concept in the WaVE project; it is a multi-layered idea, characterised by at least four dimensions: people's trust, help and cooperation with each other; people's tolerance towards each other; people's sense of belonging in the social ...
Olav Helge Angell   +3 more
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Defining Social Cohesion

2011
As suggested above, definitions of social cohesion in current research and policy literature are frequently additive in nature. That is to say they invoke a number of societal characteristics which are taken to be constitutive of a cohesive society. These generally include characteristics which relate to social attitudes and behaviours, but they can ...
Andy Green, Jan Germen Janmaat
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