24.03.2020 , in ((Social Cohesion Beyond Nation State))
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Islam Borinca and Juan M. Falomir-Pichastor
Intergroup prosocial behaviors, such as immigrants helping nationals, contribute to improving intergroup relations and strengthening social cohesion. However, people might not attribute genuine prosocial motives to a potential helper when negative intergroup perceptions and expectations shape these relations. The present blog describes research investigating factors that influence help-recipients’ understanding of intergroup
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19.03.2020 , in ((COVID-19 + Mobility, Practices))
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Lorenzo Piccoli and Jelena Dzankic
The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health emergency, but it also has the potential to impact on many other elements of European societies beyond health services. Jelena Dzankic and Lorenzo Piccoli write on the effect the outbreak is having on the uses and meanings of citizenship. The rapid spread of
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17.03.2020 , in ((COVID-19 + Mobility, Politics, Practices))
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Lorenzo Piccoli and Joelle Moret
Between February and March 2020, many people accustomed to being highly mobile witnessed a massive curtailing of their right to travel both across and within countries. Among these measures were suppression of flights, closure of borders, banning of international student exchanges, halting of public transportation, lock-down of entire cities, freezing
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11.03.2020 , in ((Social Cohesion Beyond Nation State))
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Alois Stutzer
Many problems in society can only be successfully addressed if its members are willing to cooperate, even if decisions go against their individual or group-specific short-term interests. This cooperation requires a certain level of cohesion among the members of society. Social cohesion can, therefore, be seen as one of the
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05.03.2020 , in ((Social Cohesion Beyond Nation State))
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Juan M. Falomir-Pichastor, Eva Green and Anita Manatschal
Increasing global migration streams challenge social cohesion. The present blog contribution describes several lines of research examining how social norms shape the ways both national majorities in destination countries and immigrants react to increased diversity and its consequences. Overall, this research shows how social norms operating at the national and
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