Social Cohesion in European Societies: Conceptualising and Assessing Togetherness

This book explains the concept of social cohesion in the context of a comparative sociological study.

It proposes an innovative approach to the measurement of social cohesion, considering as constitutive elements social trust, institutional trust, and societies’ degree of openness. Aruqaj observes these elements across time and on multiple social levels: individual (socio-economic inequalities and ethno-linguistic diversification); group (social categorisations and regional statistics of rel...