Social Cohesion as a Real-life Phenomenon: Exploring the Validity of the Universalist and Particularist Perspectives

Table 2. Regimes of social cohesion proposed by Green et al (2009: 94, 95, 101)

	Liberal	Social- democratic	Conservative	East Asian
Equality__________	-	+___________	+/-	+
Order___________	-	+/-	+___________	+___________
Civic participation (active and passive)___________	+	+/-	-	-
Social trust________	+/-	+___________	+/-	+/-
Tolerance________	+ ~~	+/-	-	-
Cultural pluralism	+_________	+___________	-	-
Social hierarchy	-	-	+	+

Countries	English- speaking	Scandinavian	Continental European_____	Japan, South Korea, Taiwan