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The Glue of Society: A Social Ontology of Social Cohesion

Descrizione del progetto

Comprendere la coesione sociale

Cosa mantiene stabili le società e aiuta le persone a cooperare? La coesione sociale ne è un elemento fondamentale, ma il suo significato e il suo ruolo non sono ben compresi. Molti studi si concentrano sul modo in cui i gruppi lavorano insieme per raggiungere obiettivi condivisi, ma spesso ignorano come individui con obiettivi diversi possano comunque cooperare efficacemente. Questa lacuna di comprensione limita il modo in cui affrontiamo la stabilità e i conflitti sociali. In questo contesto, il progetto GLUE, finanziato dal CER, mira a chiarire cosa sia la coesione sociale e come plasma il mondo sociale. Tramite approcci descrittivi e critici, GLUE arricchisce la comprensione delle dinamiche sociali, amplia la portata dell’ontologia sociale e propone strategie per affrontare la destabilizzazione sociale. In definitiva, il progetto mira a migliorare le strutture per promuovere la stabilità sociale.

Obiettivo

Social cohesion is a key concept in how we think about the social world. And yet, we have a very poor conceptual understanding of what social cohesion is, how it relates to other social phenomena, and which role it plays in maintaining social order and facilitating cooperation. To date, this challenge has not been taken up by social ontology. Contemporary social ontology primarily focuses on understanding the nature of collective cooperation in which people coalesce around a joint purpose in such a way that we can attribute attitudes and actions to them as a collective rather than as an aggregation of individuals. But social cohesion is not only a function of collective cooperation but also the extent to which a social system enables mutually sustaining cooperation among agents with separate goals. Call this converging cooperation.

It seems then that social cohesion is a key concept in how we think about the social world that lies beyond the scope of social ontology in its current form. Responding to this impasse, the aim of the GLUE project is to secure philosophical clarification of the concept of social cohesion and to account for its role in constituting and maintaining the social world.

The primary research questions are:
1) What is social cohesion, and which distinct social phenomenon might it refer to?
2) What are the semantically explanatory relations between (a) social cohesion and (b) the concepts often used in social ontology and the social sciences to account for collective cooperation?
3) How can a clearer account of social cohesion be used to foster social stability?

Combining descriptive, explanatory, and critical approaches to social ontology, GLUE (a) enriches our typology of social dynamics, (b) expands the scope of social ontology beyond collective cooperation, (c) introduces concepts that can help identify and mitigate forms of social destabilisation, and (d) develops a new and integrative research method for social ontology.

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Istituzione ospitante

AARHUS UNIVERSITET
Contributo netto dell'UE
€ 1 499 943,00
Indirizzo
NORDRE RINGGADE 1
8000 Aarhus C
Danimarca
Regione
Danmark Midtjylland Østjylland
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 1 499 943,00

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