Cohesion (social policy)

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In social policy, cohesion refers to the bonds or "glue" that bring members of a society, community or other group together.

The term has been especially prominent since 2001 in British social policy, as the Runnymede Trust noted in their "The Year of Cohesion" in 2003:

If there has been a key word added to the Runnymede lexicon in 2002, it is cohesion. A year from publication of the report of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, the Cantle, Denham, Clarke, Ouseley and Ritchie reports moved cohesion to the forefront of the UK race debate.[1]

[edit] See also

• Community cohesion
• Social cohesion
• Structural cohesion