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Книга Social Cohesion Contested Dan Swain

Social Cohesion Contested

Living Together Beyond the Neoliberal Regime

Автор: Dan Swain, Petr Urban
Език: Английски език
Корици: С твърди корици
Издател: Rowman & Littlefield
Наличност: Външен склад
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103.98 € 203.36 лв
In recent decades social cohesion has emerged as a major concern of states, policymakers and researc...

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Автор
Dan Swain, Petr Urban
Език
Английски език
Корици
Книга - С твърди корици
Издадена
2024
страници
176
EAN
9781538176627
Enbook ID
44056617
Издател
Rowman & Littlefield
Теглоt
399
Размери
152 x 229

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In recent decades social cohesion has emerged as a major concern of states, policymakers and researchers. Social cohesion is represented as a desirable policy goal and as the basis for everything from economic growth to individual well-being. At the same time, it is increasingly presented as a single substance, which can be measured, tracked, and compared across diverse societies. But why should we think of the complex ways in which we can live well together in terms of a single substance? Social Cohesion Contested challenges this way of thinking, suggesting that social cohesion has become a buzzword that obscures more than it illuminates.

Dan Swain and Petr Urban trace the rise of the concept through the policy agendas of transnational and international bodies, and analyze the reactions of social researchers to the demands of policymakers for a clear and operationalizable concept. They argue that the term is frequently used in a way that assumes broad understanding and agreement, while in practice it is subject to contradictory definitions and often loaded with various implicit and explicit values, which become masked behind a veneer of scientific authority and normative legitimacy. The more that social cohesion is treated as a single substance with a clear and uncontroversial meaning, the more it narrows the space for debate and contestation around both the policies adopted in its name and the understanding of the social on which it rests. In contrast, if social cohesion is to mean anything it ought to be understood explicitly as a contested concept, and actively subject to contestation. The book thus provides not only a critique of a popular concept, but an example of engaged philosophical criticism of social research and policy.

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