the.com/social cohesion
the invisible glue that keeps strangers from treating each other like obstacles.
means the degree to which people in a society trust each other, share norms, and pull together instead of apart.
from rooted in emile durkheim's late-1800s work on solidarity, asking why societies do not collapse into every-man-for-himself chaos.
durkheim's fearanomie, when shared norms dissolve entirely
measured bytrust surveys, volunteering rates, voter turnout
decays quietlylong before violence, cohesion erodes first
rebuilt slowlytakes generations, breaks in a single crisis