Cultural Cohesion

Author : Peter Hitchen
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411669940
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education and Multicultural Cohesion in the Caribbean:the Case of Belize, 1931 - 1981 written by Peter Hitchen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-07-05 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HARDCOVER edition. Please see paperback description.

Author : Abe W. Ata
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000096475
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslim Minorities and Social Cohesion written by Abe W. Ata and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines various attempts in the ‘West’ to manage cultural, linguistic, and religious diversity – focusing on Muslim minorities in predominantly non-Muslim societies. An international panel of contributors chart evolving national identities and social values, assessing the way that both contemporary ‘Western’ societies and contemporary Muslim minorities view themselves and respond to the challenges of diversity. Drawing on themes and priority subjects from Islamic Culture within Euro-Asian, Australian, and American international research, they address multiple critical issues and discuss their implications for existing and future policy and practice in this area. These include subjects such as gender, the media, citizenship, and multiculturalism. The insight provided by this wide-ranging book will be of great use to scholars of Religious Studies, Interreligious Dialogue and Islamic Studies, as well as Politics, Culture, and Migration.

Author : Clive James
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393051803
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As of this Writing written by Clive James and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "As of This Writing" James has assembled his most ambitious and expansive collection to date, a book that features 49 essays on poetry, film, culture, and fiction written between 1967 and 2001.

Author : Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781633939295
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cohesion Culture written by Hall and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DID YOU KNOW that 63% of employees are actively searching for a new position? In today's war for talent, the focus should be on talent retention, not just talent attraction. C-Suite Executives, Company Founders, and Sr. HR Leaders need to develop an organizational culture where employees want to belong. Dr. Troy Hall helps you create a "Best Places To Work" environment, where your employees love to work, and stay to work.

Author : Jan Niessen
Publisher : Council of Europe
ISBN 13 : 9789287143457
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diversity and Cohesion written by Jan Niessen and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report looks at integration policies in the member states of the Council of Europe. It focuses on lessons learned since 1991 in the areas of diversity and cohesion, citizenship and participation, management of migratory movements and minority protection and describes the necessary components of social cohesion policies that promote the inclusion of migrants into societies. The report identifies ways and means of establishing positive community relations for European societies through the promotion of a political, economic, cultural and legal environment favourable to diversity and the promotion of human cohesion. Migration statistics and information on the state of ratification of European conventions are included in the annex.

Author : John Bruhn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 144190364X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Group Effect written by John Bruhn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociologists and anthropologists have had a long interest in studying the ways in which cultures shaped different patterns of health, disease, and mortality. Social scientists have documented low rates of chronic disease and disability in non-Western societies and have suggested that social stability, cultural homogeneity and social cohesion may play a part in explaining these low rates. On the other hand, in studies of Western societies, social scientists have found that disease and mortality assume different patterns among various ethnic, cultural and social-economic groups. The role of stress, social change and a low degree of cohesion have been suggested, along with other factors as contributing to the variable rates among different social groups. Social cohesion has been implicated in the cause and recovery from both physical and psychological illnesses. Although there has been a large amount of work established the beneficial effects of cohesion on health and well-being, relatively little work has focused on HOW increased social cohesion sustains or improves health. This work is based on the premise that there are risk factors, including social cohesion that regulate health and disease in groups. One of the challenges is how to measure social cohesion – it can be readily observed and experienced but difficult to quantify. A better understanding of how social cohesion works will be valuable to improving group-level interventions.

Author : Jeffrey G. Reitz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402099584
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multiculturalism and Social Cohesion written by Jeffrey G. Reitz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-04-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does multiculturalism ‘work’? Does multiculturalism policy create social cohesion, or undermine it? Multiculturalism was introduced in Canada in the 1970s and widely adopted internationally, but more recently has been hotly debated, amid new concerns about social, cultural, and political impacts of immigration. Advocates praise multiculturalism for its emphasis on special recognition for cultural minorities as facilitating their social integration, while opponents charge that multiculturalism threatens social cohesion by encouraging social isolation. Multiculturalism is thus rooted in a theory of human behaviour, and this book examines the empirical validity of some of its basic propositions, focusing on Canada as the country for which the most enthusiastic claims for multiculturalism have been made. The analysis draws on the massive national Ethnic Diversity Survey of over 41,000 Canadians in 2002, the most extensive survey yet conducted on this question. The analysis provides a new and more nuanced understanding of the complex relation between multiculturalism and social cohesion, challenging uncritically optimistic or pessimistic views. Ethnic community ties facilitate some aspects of social integration, while discouraging others. For racial minorities, relations within and outside minority communities are greatly complicated by more frequent experiences of discrimination and inequality, slowing processes of social integration. Implications for multicultural policies emphasize that race relations present important challenges across Quebec and the rest of Canada, including for the new religious minorities, and that ethnic community development requires more explicit support for social integration.

Author : Clive James
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393347117
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Cohesion: The Essential Essays written by Clive James and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clive James presents the “prequel” to his celebrated Cultural Amnesia—forty-nine essays that form a cultural education in one brilliant volume. Six years after the much-heralded publication of Cultural Amnesia, Clive James presents his “prequel”—forty-nine essays that he has selected as the best of his half-century career. Originally appearing as As of This Writing, Cultural Cohesion examines the twisted cultural terrain of the twentieth century in one of the most accessible and cohesive volumes available. Divided into four sections—“Poetry,” “Fiction and Literature,” “Culture and Criticism,” and “Visual Images”—James comments on poets like W. H. Auden and Phillip Larkin, novelists like D. H. Lawrence and Raymond Chandler (not to mention Judith Krantz!), and filmmakers like Fellini and Bogdanovich. Throughout, James delights his readers with his manic energy and critical aplomb. This volume, featuring a new introduction, is a one-volume cultural education that few recent books can rival.

Author : Richard Ballard
Publisher : Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO)
ISBN 13 : 0639911463
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social cohesion in Gauteng written by Richard Ballard and published by Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO). This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing attacks on foreigners, including in April 2015, along with a succession of widely publicised incidents of racism, have triggered a new round of soul-searching in South Africa. Why, after the comprehensive defeat of apartheid and its ideology, does prejudice seem so intractable? What kinds of interventions could help reduce these troubling events? How can society be made more ‘cohesive’? Suggestions about what to do in the face of these challenges are sometimes speculative and wishful. They consist of appeals to the better nature of ordinary people, or an assumption that the feel good moments of the democratic transition can be re-enacted to bind everyone together. Calls for social cohesion and tolerance seem often to dodge the complex vicious cycles that lead to the instances of intolerance that erupt in the media or in communities. This Research Report centres on better understanding the current dynamics of social cohesion in Gauteng. It tackles five guiding questions, each of which corresponds to a chapter: 1. How has social cohesion become a goal in post-apartheid South Africa, and what are the key limitations resulting from this understanding of social progress? 2. In a global context, how is social cohesion defined and what are the main contestations about this ideal of social change? 3. How do the respondents in the GCRO's Quality of Life IV (2015/16) survey respond to questions on levels of trust, claims to belonging by different race groups, and the place of migrants and gays and lesbians in Gauteng? 4. How have past and present initiatives to improve social cohesion conceived of the problem they are attempting to address, and what is their scale of intervention? 5. What are the various methodologies that have been used in past and present initiatives to improve social cohesion? A key premise of this research was that our society has an enormous accumulation of experience in trying to tackle anti-social interactions and to address social injustices that are, in various ways, shaped by race, class, nationality, gender, sexuality and other identities. The last two chapters of this report are based on a review of more than 60 social cohesion initiatives. They analyse the wide variety of actors involved in such work, the different ways in which they conceive of their objectives, and the different scales at which they operate. These actors pursue dozens of different methodologies including sports and dialogue, arts, psychology, urban design, and public campaigns. This dispersed capacity through society is important because it represents experience-based responses to the ways in which anti-social behaviour and social injustice are reproduced. In attempting to determine a programme of action, we argue that we should learn from and extend existing and past attempts to tackle these difficulties.

Author : Aurel Croissant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000752135
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Cohesion in Asia written by Aurel Croissant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the historical origins, contemporary dynamics and future challenges of social cohesion in South, Southeast and East Asia—one of the most dynamic and at the same time heterogeneous regions in the world, in terms of economic, political and human development. The comparative case studies in this volume develop a better understanding of social cohesion in Asia by exploring how social cohesion is understood, analyzed and sometimes politically instrumentalised. Examining different dimensions and qualities of social cohesion and how they are linked together, it also discusses the challenges of social cohesion in individual societies. The case studies include examples from Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Myanmar, Singapore, South Korea and Mainland China and building on the conceptual work and empirical findings of the Asian Social Cohesion Radar, this book provides detailed cross-country analyses over the past 15 years. Combining rigorous conceptual and theoretical reasoning with a systematic empirical analysis of trends across the region, Social Cohesion in Asia will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian politics, international relations, political sociology, comparative politics and Democratization Studies.