By Georgi Dragolov, Zsófia S. Ignácz, Jan Lorenz, Jan Delhey, Klaus Boehnke, Kai Unzicker

Many humans within the Western international are involved that the social cloth of societies is fraying. This publication constitutes the first-of-its-kind systematic account of social harmony, from idea via method to empirical facts. Readers are brought to the academically constructed Social solidarity Radar of Bertelsmann Stiftung, a globally energetic non-governmental association. The Social unity Radar defines and measures unity as characterised through 3 center elements: resilient social relatives, optimistic emotional connectedness among humans and the neighborhood, and a reported specialise in the typical solid. utilizing high quality educational and institutional information resources, the Social solidarity Radar presents insights into the extent and improvement of social team spirit over a interval of just about 25 years the world over, between 34 eu Union and OECD individuals, and domestically, one of the sixteen federal states of Germany. It additional presents insights into what impacts harmony, and what team spirit is sweet for. one of many key findings is that social unity promotes a happier existence for everyone.

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Chan et al. (2006, p. ”1 In the bewildering diversity of definitions the careful reader may have noticed that some aspects appear in many definitions; there is something like a core meaning of cohesion. From the various definitions that have been proposed, Schiefer et al. (Bertelsmann Stiftung 2012) identified six ’themes’ of social cohesion, depicted in the circles of Fig. 1. These are social relationships, connectedness, orientation towards the common good, shared values, (objective and subjective) quality of life, and equality.

Keywords Social cohesion index Social indicators Formative measurement Secondary data analysis Á Á Reflective measurement Á Unlike directly observable characteristics such as, for example, body temperature, cohesion is not an objective condition that can be easily measured. Accordingly, the measurement instrument developed for this study is complex. A number of steps are required to determine even an approximate level of cohesion in a society, expressed as a score on an overall index. This chapter outlines the analytic pathway: the selection of countries and time periods, the data sources, the choice of indicators, and the fundamental principles behind our calculation method.

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