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Друштвена кохезија и њене институције
Societies Cohesion and Its Institutions

Author(s): Vladan P. Stanković
Subject(s): Politics and society, Social Norms / Social Control, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Институт за политичке студије
Keywords: societies cohesion; social relations; functionalism; communication; norms; institutionalization

Summary/Abstract: Societies cohesion is a way of channeling the behavior and action of individuals and social groups in order to eliminate conflicts within social systems. In order to achieve this, it was necessary to define a range of: sociological, communication, and legal instruments in order to achieve a management policy that seeks to achieve stability and self-sustainability of a system based on functional relationships. A range of measures is offered, which represents an innovative contribution to the research project. These instruments, or institutions of societies cohesion, include the following forms of social behavior and social action: opinions, assessments, values, estimates, recommendations, praise/rewards, rewards, forms of suggestive behavior and social action (restoring self-esteem, boasting, expanding the stimulus) sending messages via intermediaries, good advice/instructions. Nonverbal means of cohesive communication include: encouraging socializing in smaller groups (so-called „selecting minded-ones“), preventing contacts between conflicting, balanced behaviors and acting between clandestine clans and groups, finding compromise solutions, attempts to reconcile. Institutionalized mechanisms of legal standardization include: conciliation, procedures for promotion, violation of working discipline and the like... All these societies cohesion institutions aim to prevent conflicts, facilitate communication and relax relationships in social organisms that strive for stability, self-sustainability, progress and development.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 59-76
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian