Cohesion (social policy)

Cohesion (social policy)

In social policy, cohesion refers to the bonds or "glue" that bring members of a society, community or other group together.

The term has been especially prominent since 2001 in British social policy, as the Runnymede Trust noted in their "The Year of Cohesion" in 2003:

If there has been a key word added to the Runnymede lexicon in 2002, it is cohesion. A year from publication of the report of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, the Cantle, Denham, Clarke, Ouseley and Ritchie reports moved cohesion to the forefront of the UK race debate. [http://www.runnymedetrust.org/uploads/projects/communityCohesion/theYearOfCohesion.pdf]

ee also

* Community cohesion
* Social cohesion
* Structural cohesion


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