Regimes of social cohesion
Subtitle: societies and the crisis of globalization
By: Andy Green and Jan Germen Janmaat
Contributors: Janmaat, Jan Germen
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780230290136
Subjects: Social aspects; Globalization; Social problems; Social change
Description: Building on Green and Janmaat's previous work on education, equality and social cohesion, this book analyses the various mechanisms that hold different societies together and how these are withstanding the strains fo the current economic crisis. In an original, and highly interdisciplinary, mixed method approach, drawing on evidence from historical soicology, political science and political economy, Green and Janmaat identify four major traditions of social cohesion in developed western and east Asian societies, each with specific institutional and cultural foundations. An extensive statistical analysis of contemporary administrative and attitudinal data for over 30 countries demonstrates that there are still distinctive 'regimes of social cohesion' in 'liberal, ' 'social market' and 'social democratic' countries and that they achieve social bonding in quite different ways. As the crisis of globalization unfolds in the wake of the global financial crisis, social cohesion in each regime is vulnerable at different points.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-240) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Defining social cohesion; title: Western intellectual traditions of social cohesion; title: The social origins and development of social cohesion traditions; title: Contemporary regimes of social cohesion and their institutional foundations; title: Quantitative analysis of regimes of social cohesion; title: Value diversity and social cohesion; title: Regimes of social cohesion and the global crisis.