social cohesion

Examples of social cohesion in the following topics:

• Cohesiveness

  • Advocacy groups that form along ideological, ethnic, or foreign policy objectives tend to have higher levels of internal cohesion.
  • In the social sciences a social group has been defined as two or more humans who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity.
  • A social group exhibits some degree of social cohesion and is more than a simple collection or aggregate of individuals, such as people waiting at a bus stop or people waiting in a line.
  • Antecedent factors, such as group cohesiveness, structural faults, and situational context, play into the likelihood of whether or not groupthink will impact the decision-making process.
  • For the social psychologist, the level of analysis is the individual in the context of a social situation.

• The Elderly

  • Within the United States, senior citizens are at the center of several social policy issues, most prominently Social Security and Medicare.
  • Social security is a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits.
  • The Social Security Administration was set up in 1935 as part of President Franklin D.
  • Roosevelt's "New Deal. " Social Security is currently the largest social welfare program in the United States, constituting 37% of government expenditure and 7% of GDP.
  • In 2010, more than 54 million Americans received approximately $712 billion in Social Security benefits

• Social Regulation

  • Social policy refers to guidelines, principles, legislation and activities that affect the living conditions conducive to human welfare.
  • Social policy primarily refers to guidelines, principles, legislation and activities that affect the living conditions conducive to human welfare.
  • Social policy aims to improve human welfare and to meet human needs for education, health, housing and social security.
  • Important areas of social policy are the welfare state, social security, unemployment insurance, environmental policy, pensions, health care, social housing, social care, child protection, social exclusion, education policy, crime, and criminal justice.
  • The term 'social policy' can also refer to policies which govern human behavior.

• Major Life and Political Events

  • Parents appear to be a primary source of political socialization and partisanship.
  • Social groups are another source of partisanship.
  • Political socialization takes place throughout the course of a person's life.
  • That is, a person's attachment to a specific political ideology naturally grew stronger over time, as weak socialization became strong and strong socialization became stronger.
  • Explain how parents, social groups and major life events are sources for political socialization

• Socioeconomic and Racial Demographics

  • Certain groups are socialized to a more active role in politics, while others are marginalized.
  • Education has the strongest impact on participation, as it socializes people to the political system.
  • Black citizens are active in election campaigns and social movements.
  • These groups have not experienced as much political socialization as other groups.
  • There are significant differences in the way that males and females are socialized to politics.

• Conservatism

  • Conservatism is a social and political philosophy that supports retaining traditional social institutions and has many modern variations.
  • Conservatism, taken from the Latin word conservare ("to retain") is a political and social philosophy that promotes retaining traditional social institutions.
  • A social conservative wants to preserve traditional morality and social mores, often through civil law or regulation.
  • Social change is generally regarded as suspect.
  • Social conservatives see traditional social values as threatened by secularism, so they support school prayer and oppose abortion and homosexuality.

• Minorities, Women, and Children

  • Minorities, women, and children are often the target of specific social policies.
  • Minorities, women, and children are often the target of specific social policies.
  • That is, those who hold the majority of positions of social power in a society.
  • In the social sciences, the term minority is used to refer to categories of persons who hold few positions of social power .
  • Discuss government social policy toward minorities, women and children in the United States

• Leadership

  • Interest groups may be broader than one formal organization, in which case advocacy may form a social movement.
  • A social movement is group action aimed at social change.
  • Because of these factors, social movements do not always have a clear leader the way corporate lobbying efforts and media campaigns do.
  • That being said, social scientists often disagree when defining social movements and the most effective forms of advocacy, finding that leadership plays an ambiguous role in terms of the overall success of many interest groups.
  • Differentiate between the different kinds of leadership structures in interest groups and social movements.

• Liberalism

  • Conversely social liberals adopted the Classical Liberal belief in defending social civil liberties.
  • These theories came to be termed "liberal socialism", which is related with social democracy in Europe.
  • Socialism formed as a group of related yet divergent ideologies in the 19th century such as Christian socialism, Communism and Social Anarchism.
  • Social democracy, an ideology advocating progressive reform of capitalism, emerged in the 20th century and was influenced by socialism.
  • Several commentators have noted strong similarities between social liberalism and social democracy, with one political scientist even calling American liberalism "bootleg social democracy".

• Models of Political Socialization

  • Moral development is an important part of the socialization process.
  • Would a female social scientist notice different patterns when analyzing the research?
  • Political socialization involves one generation passing on political values and norms to the next generation.
  • Political socialization does not always mean people are being socialized to accept mainstream political views.
  • The gang "The Latin Kings" (insignia shown) socializes members to violence.