Social Solidarity in France

Solidarity and Rapport in Social Interaction

This chapter examines the way online language users enhance social interaction and group collaboration through the computer mediated communication (CMC) channel. For this, discourse analysis based on the linguistic politeness theoretical framework is applied to the transcripts of a real time online chat. Analysis of the data shows that online participants employ a variety of creative devices to...

Integration and Multiculturalism: Ways towards Social Solidarity

Social Darwinism in France

women needed a little, and, more frequently, immigrants needed less than the native-born, while black men and women had a natural immunity to pain. In general, the available surgical records of hospitals in the late nineteenth century show these theoretical ideas reflected in the actual frequency of anaesthesia used for different groups of patients. Pernick's account displays the many arguments...

Intergenerational Solidarity: Strengthening Economic and Social Ties

Preface Never before have we witnessed a " silent revolution " of such significance for all sectors of society as the global phenomenon of population aging, which has a direct bearing on the meaning of generations, cohorts and intergenerational solidarity. Two key elements of this transformation stand out. First, there is a new architecture of society that entails social change, which challenge...

The political sources of social solidarity

This essay explores the roots of redistributive social solidarity in the developed democracies. Banting and Kymlicka (this volume) define social solidarity as a worldview widespread among the populace, with civic, democratic and redistributive dimensions, whereby individuals tolerate views and practices they dislike, accept democratic decisions even if those run counter to their beliefs or inte...