Interrogating social cohesion: the South African case
SOURCE: Regional integration and social cohesion: perspectives from the developing world
OUTPUT TYPE: Chapter in Monograph
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2013
TITLE AUTHOR(S): V.Barolsky
SOURCE EDITOR(S): C.Moore
KEYWORDS: SOCIAL COHESION
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 8062
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/2653
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/2653
OUTPUT TYPE: Chapter in Monograph
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2013
TITLE AUTHOR(S): V.Barolsky
SOURCE EDITOR(S): C.Moore
KEYWORDS: SOCIAL COHESION
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 8062
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/2653
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/2653
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Abstract
It will be argued in this chapter that the current South African government's policy focus on the question of social cohesion is driven by an understandable concern with the state of South Africa's social fabric as well as an important insight that social networks and social relations remain important even in a complex modern society. However, there is a danger that anxieties around the state of the social fabric can lead to a misrecognition of the nature of the problem of social cohesion as solely a question of values, which posits consensus in the realm of values as the solution to this problem.-
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