Introduction: social cohesion and social change in Europe

International aid has influenced and, in part, shaped the artistic sector in Africa's Great Lakes region (DRC, Rwanda, Burundi) since the 1990s, a period marked by numerous conflicts and mass violence. Due to NGOs’ programmatic foci, artists performing for social change are increasingly compelled to focus on reconciliation and conflict resolution, generating political awareness and bringing about social change, healing and peacemaking. Through a comparative analysis of European and local productions on the genocide this article asks, how and why does an ‘NGO-style theatre’ develop a specific audience in the region? How have themes such as mass violence, inter-ethnic conflict and social cohesion become the main concerns of the territory's theatre? How do performances made and/or sponsored by NGOs challenge not only theatre's form, its social stakes and functions, but also the conception of its audience and the relationships between actors and spectators?

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The Potential of Gamification for Humanitarian Organizations to Support Integration in Migration Contexts

10.4018/978-1-7998-9223-6.ch018 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 381-397

Author(s):

Marvin Jammermann ◽

Beybin Elvin Tunc

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Social Interaction ◽

Social Interactions ◽

Social Cohesion ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Humanitarian Organizations ◽

Democratic Spaces

The aim of this chapter is to explore the connections between the inherent characteristics of gamification and the current need for sustainable integration activities that are based on meaningful social interactions. By highlighting the potential of gamification for creating democratic spaces of social interaction and engaging diverse actors in joyful encounters, it is possible to underline the notion of social change that gamification can induce. In the area of integration, humanitarian organizations can harness the potential of gamification in their integration activities in order to ensure increased social cohesion. Through a critical analysis of existing gamification and integration approaches, the chapter provides arguments for why gamification is perfectly suited to improve integration processes by highlighting the manifold applications of gamification experience in the humanitarian field.

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Role of Education in Inter-Caste Marriages of Women from Scheduled Castes in India

10.21523/gcj5.18020203 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 79-86

Author(s):

Ravindra Medhe

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Human Development ◽

Social Cohesion ◽

Negative Relationship ◽

Freedom Of Choice ◽

Large Scope ◽

Scheduled Castes ◽

Using Data ◽

The Relationship

Scheduled Castes (SC) is a group of deprived castes in India. Traditionally, people belongs to these castes are socio-economically exploited and untouchables. The present study analyses the role of education in decision of inter-caste marriages for social cohesion. The relationship between education of bride, parents and parents-in-law with number of inter-caste marriages was calculated using data compiled by India Human Development Survey (2011). The study shows no direct and robust relationship between education and inter-caste marriages. Educated brides lead for inter-caste marriages and educated parents support in this decision, but negative relationship was observed for education of parents-in-law with number of inter-caste marriages. Educated parents-in-law show no acceptance for inter-caste marriages of their shoots. The freedom of choice to bride show key role in formation of inter-case marriages which shows wide state-to-state variations. Education improves the capabilities of a person to deicide their own. Therefore, we have large scope to create bases for inter-caste marriages and social change through enlightenment and education.

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Social Cohesion and Social Change in Europe

10.4324/9781315658315 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Gerard Boucher

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Social Cohesion

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Engaging Religion in a Contested Age: Contestations, Postmodernity, and Social Change

Sociology of Religion ◽

10.1093/socrel/srz047 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 81 (2) ◽

pp. 142-157

Author(s):

Paula D Nesbitt

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Social Cohesion ◽

Ethnically Diverse ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Cultural Dynamics ◽

Company Town ◽

Case Examples ◽

Civic Discourse ◽

Plant Closure ◽

Moral Basis

Abstract Both secular and religious contestations have threatened the character of contemporary civic discourse, signifying underlying issues needing to be addressed. Postmodern and globalization influences have contributed to their scope and intensity, adding underlying complexities to the presenting issues. Drawing upon case examples of a secular plant closure in a racially and ethnically diverse company town and strife threatening organizational viability in the cross-cultural Anglican Communion, I argue first that religion either directly influences or indirectly serves as a latent resource within secularized morality, and second that cross-cultural contestations involving religion typically contain underlying societal concerns; both need to be addressed in analyzing meaning and hope for change. Sociologists of religion have opportunity to explore how religion is deployed as a moral basis of contestation, and how it might interact with postcolonial and other cultural dynamics, with implications for solutions in building social cohesion across worldviews and cultures.

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