The family dinner is an important social event that contributes to children's growth as active citizens in their community. This sociological study uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to study the family meal and finds that this meal is strongly correlated with the development of social cohesion and strong relationships among family members. There are many obstacles to achieving the ...

Community scholars increasingly focus on the linkage between residents' sense of cohesion with the neighborhood and their own social networks in the neighborhood. A challenge is that whereas some research only focuses on residents' social ties with fellow neighbors, such an approach misses out on the larger constellation of individuals' relationships and the spatial distribution of those relati...

The level of understanding of adhesive bond failures within the flight safety community is not as robust as it could be. Generally, most investigators are broadly aware of cohesion failure (fracture of the adhesive) and adhesion failure (a slick failure at the interface). They may also have some limited knowledge of common causes for bond failures such as bond-line voids, which is one cause of ...

BACKGROUND Neighborhood cohesion, which refers to the extent of the connectedness and solidarity among residents in a community or neighborhood, is an important determinant of human health. To enhance neighborhood cohesion, the "Learning Families Project" was developed with a series of intervention programs in Kwun Tong in Hong Kong, a district with low neighborhood cohesion. This project, base...

BACKGROUND Membership in community groups and a sense of community cohesion may facilitate collective action in mobilizing resources towards better health outcomes. This paper explores the relationship of these factors, along with individual level socio-economic variables, to dietary adequacy among children below 6 years of age, a proximate determinant of child malnutrition. METHODS We conduc...

The article shows the important role of social cohesion as a phenomenon, its impact on development society and intercultural communication. trust, in particular, cohesion, is also shown. Social acquires acute relevance importance current time transformations, allows communities overcome various fluctuations changes. complex phenomenon has been analyzed focus studies. aim research was to investi...

BACKGROUND The neighborhood social environment has been identified as an important aspect of older people's well-being. Poor neighborhood conditions can pose difficulties in obtaining support, especially for older people who live alone. Although social environments have been found to be related to well-being among older people, the longitudinal relationship between the social environment and we...