Contents of social cohesion: key accents of contemporary scientific discourse in three social spaces

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of key concepts related to the interpretation of the contents of the “social cohesion” phenomenon in three social spaces — North-American, European and Ukrainian. At-tention is focused on the works of researchers from the middle of the 20th to the first twenty years of the 21st century. It is emphasized that the discourse of this period is characterized by two trends in the statements of Western researchers: a) opinions are expressed that the phenomenon re-mains in the center of research attention; b) sometimes research attention to the phenomenon decreases. The authors present the most generalized and most widespread definitions of the concept of “social cohesion” in the scientific discourse, analyze certain new trends in its interpretation in com-parison with previous periods, drawing attention to the fact that recently there has been a tendency to increase the operationalization of the con-cepts in the discourse. The article contains an analysis of the development of a large pool of researchers of social cohesion from the countries of North America and Europe, as well as the basis for the development of scientific discourse in the Ukrainian social space and the possibility of its inclusion in the global discourse.