cohesiveness

Examples of cohesiveness in the following topics:

• Mechanical and Organic Solidarity

  • Mechanical and organic solidarity are concepts referring to different modes of establishing and maintaining social order and cohesion.
  • Although individuals perform very different roles in an organization, and often have different values and interests, there is a cohesion that arises from the compartmentalization and specialization woven into "modern" life.
  • Solidarity describes connections between individuals that allow them to form a cohesive social network.
  • Mechanical solidarity refers to connection, cohesion, and integration born from homogeneity, or similar work, education, religiosity, and lifestyle.
  • Although individuals perform very different roles in an organization, and they often have different values and interests, there is a cohesion that arises from the compartmentalization and specialization woven into "modern" life.

• Effects of Group Size on Stability and Intimacy

  • Since it is easier for fewer people to agree on goals and to coordinate their work, smaller groups are more cohesive than larger groups.
  • A group is said to be in a state of cohesion when its members possess bonds linking them to one another and to the group as a whole.
  • According to Festinger, Schachter, and Back (1950), group cohesion develops from a field of binding social forces that act on members to stay in the group.
  • Since it is easier for fewer people to agree on goals and to coordinate their work, smaller groups are often more cohesive than larger groups.
  • Group cohesiveness may suffer, though, if the group lacks enough members to perform its tasks well.

• Functions of Religion

  • Given this approach, Durkheim proposed that religion has three major functions in society: it provides social cohesion to help maintain social solidarity through shared rituals and beliefs, social control to enforce religious-based morals and norms to help maintain conformity and control in society, and it offers meaning and purpose to answer any existential questions.
  • Religion, he argued, was an expression of social cohesion.
  • In one sense, this still fits the structural-functional approach as it provides social cohesion among the members of one party in a conflict.
  • For instance, the social cohesion among the members of a terrorist group is high, but in a broader sense, religion is obviously resulting in conflict without questioning its actions against other members of society.

• The Nature of Groups

  • 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.
  • Explicitly contrasted with a social cohesion-based definition for social groups is the social identity perspective, which draws on insights made in social identity theory.
  • The social identity approach posits that the necessary and sufficient conditions for the formation of social groups is "awareness of a common category membership" and that a social group can be "usefully conceptualized as a number of individuals who have internalized the same social category membership as a component of their self concept. " Stated otherwise, while the social cohesion approach expects group members to ask "who am I attracted to?
  • Contrast the social cohesion-based concept of a social group with the social identity concept

• Density

  • Network>Cohesion>Density is a quite powerful tool for calculating densities.
  • The Network>Cohesion>Density algorithm also can be used to calculate the densities within partitions or blocks by specifying the file name of an attribute data set that contains the node name and partition number.
  • Here's the output of Network>Cohesion>Reachability from UCINET.
  • Reachability tells us whether two actors are connected or not by way of either a direct or an indirect pathways of any length.Network>Cohesion>Point Connectivity calculates the number of nodes that would have to be removed in order for one actor to no longer be able to reach another.

• Durkheim's Mechanical and Organic Solidarity

  • In a society exhibiting mechanical solidarity, its cohesion and integration comes from the homogeneity of individuals.
  • Organic solidarity is social cohesion based upon the dependence individuals have on each other in more advanced societies.

• The Functionalist Perspective

  • According to the functionalist perspective, race and ethnicity are two of the various parts of a cohesive society.

• Neighborhood

  • One factor contributing to neighborhood distinctiveness and social cohesion was the role of rural to urban migration.
  • Community usually refers to a social unit—larger than a household—that shares common values and has social cohesion.

• Community

  • A community is typically a social unit that is larger than a single household, comprised of individuals that share values and thus create an environment of social cohesion.
  • In his 1887 book, aptly titled Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft, Tönnies argued that gemeinschaft is perceived to be a tighter and more cohesive social entity, due to the presence of a "unity of will."
  • Social cohesion in gesellschaften typically derives more from an elaborate division of labor.
  • Mechanical solidarity is a type of community in which social cohesion comes from the homogeneity of individuals.

• Transitivity

  • Nonetheless, the Network>Cohesion>Transitivity algorithms in UCINET offer some interesting and flexible approaches to characterizing the transitivity of triads in populations.
  • Network>Cohesion>Transitivity also provides some alternative definitions of what it means for a triad to be transitive which are useful for valued data.
  • After performing a census of all possible triads, Network>Cohesion>Transitivity reports that it finds 146 transitive (directed) triples.