research
Research from the WP3 Discourses of Cohesion Team has recently been presented at the annual conference of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR). In September, Rico Neumann traveled to Salzburg, Austria, to present and discuss preliminary findings from the paper "Of Virtues and Values: Examining Public Discourses on Social Cohesion from a [...]
The paper “The Rhetoric of Solidarity: Nature and Measurement of Social Cohesion in the Self‑representation of Civil Society Organizations” was published in the October issue of Social Indicators Research. Our WP3 team – Rico Neumann, Barbara Pfetsch, Swen Hutter, Simon Koschut, David Schieferdecker and Jule Specht, with the research assistance of [...]
How social capital matters for receiving social support The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in an increased demand for social support, with people offering practical, emotional, and financial assistance to friends, family, and strangers. The study “How social capital matters for receiving social support: on the complementary role of civil society [...]
International Communication Association (ICA) 2023 Recently the upcoming paper Measuring the Rhetoric of Solidarity in Civil Society – How Voluntary Organizations Negotiate Social Cohesion in Their Public Communication has been accepted to be presented at the annual conference of the ICA (International Communication Association) in Toronto. Researchers Dr. Rico Neumann and Prof. [...]
The research unit Subjects of Cohesion wants to understand who participates in which forms of civic engagement and in which societal fields? Who withholds engagement? How does engagement affect social cohesion? What individual expectations and consequences are associated with civic engagement? How does engagement affect social cohesion? In order to be able to [...]
