Is social cohesion decisive for energy cooperatives existence? A quantitative analysis

Indicators for Social Cohesion

cohesion and cohesive devices in a contrastive analysis between ge and esp texts

the present study was an attempt to conduct a contrastive analysis between general english (ge) and english for specific purposes (esp) texts in terms of cohesion and cohesive devices. to this end, thirty texts from different esp and ge textbooks were randomly selected. then they were analyzed manually to find the frequency of cohesive devices. cohesive devices include reference, substitution, ...

Social Responsibility in Cooperatives: a Contribution for Sustainability

Europe is in a deep economic crisis and social economy and cooperatives are getting more interest by academics, firms and politicians because they can contribute to the economic, social and environmental development, in a sustainable and responsible way, being key for the implementation of new employment sources and the expansion of social responsibility as a development mean. The aim of this w...

Social Cohesion

Investigators interested in developing a general theory of social cohesion are confronted with a complex body of work that involves various definitions of social cohesion, specialized literatures on particular dimensions of social cohesion (e.g., membership turnover, organizational commitment, categorical identifications, interpersonal attachments, network structures), and lines of inquiry focu...

Educational Inequality and Social Cohesion: a Time Series Analysis

The role of education in societal integration has been an recurrent motif in the sociology of education from its inception. Emile Durkheim (1977) in the 19 century was centrally concerned with the functions of education in cultural reproduction and the promotion of social solidarity; Talcott Parsons (1968) in the 20 followed him, designating social integration a primary task of public education...