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Social Cohesion: Measurement Based on the Data from European Value Study

Social Cohesion: Measurement Based on the Data from European Value Study. Paul Dickes, Marie Valentova, Monique Borsenberger CEPS/ Instead , Luxembourg. General outlines of the paper. Aims: To test empirically validity of the Bernard’s definition of social cohesion.

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Social Cohesion: Measurement Based on the Data from European Value Study

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  1. Social Cohesion: Measurement Based on the Data from European Value Study Paul Dickes, Marie Valentova, Monique Borsenberger CEPS/Instead, Luxembourg

  2. General outlines of the paper • Aims: • To test empirically validity of the Bernard’s definition of social cohesion. • To construct a measurement/s of social cohesion using micro-level data. • Data: • European Value Study (EVS) 1999, representative sample of the Luxembourgish population, N=1211 individuals aged 18 years and older. • EVS contains a great number of subjective and objective items that measure attitudes toward and behaviour regarding social relations, participation, and trust at many levels of social reality as well as in many spheres of everyday life, which more or less correspond to dimensions of social cohesion covered by the Bernard’s theory. • Methodology: • Multidimensional scaling, Confirmatory factor analysis.

  3. Theoretical framework: Bernard’s integrated conceptual scheme of social cohesion

  4. Operationalization: 18 indicators of social cohesion based on the EVS data

  5. MDS: Multidimensional representation of the 18 social cohesion indicators

  6. Model 1: six oblique latent factors

  7. Model 2: Hierarchical representation with two correlated second-order factors

  8. Model 3: Hierarchical representation with two orthogonal second-order factors

  9. Model 4: Hierarchical representation with one second-order factor

  10. Concluding remarks • Conclusions: • The results of multidimensional scaling reveal that Bernard’s conceptualisation of social cohesion can be confirmed. • Using confirmatory factor analysis, we estimated four distinctive adequate models: These four models allow us to calculate different factor scores of social cohesion, which can be used to answer different research questions and compare different population subgroups. • Comments: • The indicators do not cover perfectly all dimensions of Bernard’s integral theoretical scheme. Due to the data restrictions, we used only one indicator to cover formal economic sphere and none for the substantial dimension of economic sphere. • All these above proposed measurements of social cohesion are issued from the data of one country collected at one point in time. It is necessary that in the future the above described measurement sofsocial cohesion could be replicated on the 2008 EVS data set and thus cross-validated across time and across countries.

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