What Do We Know about Social Cohesion: The Research Perspective of the Federal Government's Social Cohesion Research Network

Stanley, Dick

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“…4 participation (Umberson and Montez, 2010) and social cohesion (the willingness of the residents in a society to cooperate with each other) (Stanley, 2003) and PA (Ball et al, 2010;Lindström et al, 2001;Lindstrom et al, 2003;Mummery et al, 2008). Social cohesion is a measure of social capital, which has been associated with increased PA. Research has shown that residents of neighbourhoods with high social capital are more physically active than their counterparts residing in lower social capital neighbourhoods (Mohnen et al, 2012), suggesting that cohesive neighbourhoods might share healthrelated norms such as walking (Echeverría et al, 2008;Ghani et al, in press), and this might partly explain the effect of neighbourhood social capital on health.…”

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Associations between physical activity and the neighbourhood social environment: baseline results from the HABITAT multilevel study

Rachele

Ghani

Loh

et al. 2016

Preventive Medicine

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Associations between physical activity and the neighbourhood social environment: baseline results from the HABITAT multilevel study, Preventive Medicine (2016), doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2016 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. A C C E P T E D M A N U S C R I P T ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT A C C E P T E D M A N U S C R I P T ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT 2 AbstractLimitations have arisen when measuring associations between the neighbourhood social environment and physical activity, including same-source bias, and the reliability of aggregated neighbourhoodlevel social environment measures. This study aims to examine cross-sectional associations between the neighbourhood social environment (perceptions of incivilities, crime, and social cohesion) and self-reported physical activity, while accounting for same-source bias and reliability of neighbourhood-level exposure measures, using data from a large population-based clustered sample. No associations were found between social cohesion and physical activity. This study provides a basis from which to gain a clearer understanding of the relationship between the neighbourhood social environment and individual physical activity. Further work is required to explore the pathways between perceptions of the neighbourhood social environment and physical activity.

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Associations between physical activity and the neighbourhood social environment: baseline results from the HABITAT multilevel study

Rachele

Ghani

Loh

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Preventive Medicine

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“…The Montréal workshop participants did warn that not all social effects of art, culture, or heritage were positive: we also find violence, racism, and sexism in the arts. However, there is reason to believe that in the long run and in the aggregate, socially dysfunctional and exclusionary ideas (for example, the twentieth-century racial theories of the Nazis, nineteenth-century American ideas of racial inferiority and slavery, sixteenth-century ideas about heresy and witchcraft) will be weeded out of the tradition and the repertoire (Jeannotte, Stanley, Pendakur, Jamieson, Williams, & Aizlewood, 2002;Stanley, 2003a).…”

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Introduction: The Social Effects of Culture

Stanley

2006

Canadian Journal of Communication

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This report provides an overview of a research Initiative to Study the Social Effects of Culture (ISSEC) which was jointly undertaken by the Department of Canadian Heritage (PCH), the Canadian Cultural Research Network (CCRN) and the University of Ottawa as a result of discussions that took place at a jointly-sponsored colloquium held in November 2003. The participants at that colloquium, which was entitled “Accounting for Culture: Examining the Building Blocks of Cultural Citizenship”, concluded that more basic research was required on the social effects of culture to supplement ongoing investigations regarding the economic impact of culture and to fill a significant knowledge gap in this area. In particular, it was noted that without a sound and plausible understanding of the connection between individual cultural involvement and other social behaviours and without rigorous empirical evidence, it is difficult to make the case that cultural consumption and participation produce socially valuable externalities that warrant public policy support. The participants at the workshop, held in Montreal on August 24 and 25, 2004, concluded that there were six possible functional social effects of culture: 1) fostering civic participation 2) contributing to community development 3) formation and retention of identity 4) building social cohesion 5) modifying values and preferences for collective choice 6) enhancing collective understanding and capacity for collective action. These effects, which are inter-related and mutually reinforcing, were tested via a series of research propositions, and resulted in a series of papers which are intended to contribute to the evidence base on this subject.

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“…Social cohesion can be defined in the socio-cultural context as the willingness of members of a society to cooperate with each other in order to survive and prosper (Stanley, 2003). The OECD Development Centre describes a cohesive society as one which "works towards the well-being of all its members, fights exclusion and marginalisation, creates a sense of belonging, promotes trust, and offers its members the opportunity of upward social mobility" (OECD, 2011).…”

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On the Relationships Between Smart Growth and Cohesion Indicators in the Eu Countries¹

Bal-Domańska

Sobczak

2016

Statistics in Transition New Series

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Within the framework of the Europe 2020 strategy smart growth is listed as one of the leading policy objectives aimed at improving the situation in education, digital society and research and innovation. The objective of this article is to evaluate the relationships between smart growth and economic and social cohesion factors. Aggregate measures were used to describe smart growth pillars. Here, social cohesion is described by the level of employment rate as one of the conditions essential to the well-being and prosperity of individuals. Economic cohesion is defined by the level of GDP per capita in PPS. Observation of these three phenomena forms the basis for the construction of panel data models and undertaking the assessment of the relationships between smart growth and economic and social cohesion factors. The study was performed on the group of 27 European Union countries in the period of 2002-2011.

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What Do We Know about Social Cohesion: The Research Perspective of the Federal Government's Social Cohesion Research Network

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Associations between physical activity and the neighbourhood social environment: baseline results from the HABITAT multilevel study

Associations between physical activity and the neighbourhood social environment: baseline results from the HABITAT multilevel study

Introduction: The Social Effects of Culture

On the Relationships Between Smart Growth and Cohesion Indicators in the Eu Countries¹

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Associations between physical activity and the neighbourhood social environment: baseline results from the HABITAT multilevel study

Associations between physical activity and the neighbourhood social environment: baseline results from the HABITAT multilevel study

Introduction: The Social Effects of Culture

On the Relationships Between Smart Growth and Cohesion Indicators in the Eu Countries1

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