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

Extracted dimensions

Components of
social cohesion

Indicators of social cohesion

‘solidarity’

‘participation’

3

4

Civic participation
/ political
engagement

Discussing politics

Л0^-

-^37^

.61

.26"

Belonging to different
organizations____________________

.09^

.75“

.43^

.35^

Tolerance

No objection to immigrants as
neighbours_____________________

.32^

.52

-.27

-.02

No objection to homosexuals as
neighbours_____________________

.59

.46^-

-.45

-.14

Social trust

Most people can be trusted

33

-.07

j2"

Institutional trust

Trust in parliament

.05^

-.61

-.49

.04^

Common values

Consensus on gender equality

.62

-.53^-

JfT

-.27

Consensus on democracy as
preferred system________________

.50

-.29^-

-.25

.27

Consensus on traditional/secular
values_________________________

-.86“

-.28^-

-.15

J9^-

Consensus on
survival/selfexpression values

-.62^-

-.33^-

-.46

-.07

Shared sense of
belonging

National pride

-.52

.68^-

-.07

-.35

Geographic unit of identification

-.45

jΓ^

-.39

.62

Social order

100 minus number of homicides

.58“

.04"

-.09

.28^-

Equality

1 minus Gini coefficient

.76“

.28"

-.35

.04^

Explained
variance_________

32%

20%

12%

7%^-