Solidarity in Social Work

Network Embeddedness and Solidarity at Work – Andreas

1. Short summary of results of the original research (extended summary see below) At this moment (1 September 2001), about two third of the research period are completed. In accordance with the work plan, the focus has been on theoretical model building in the first two years and will shift to empirical testing and publication of research results in the third year. Articles based on the researc...

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

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...