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Saturday, April 19, 2008

Cohesion




Cohesion (chemistry): the intermolecular attraction between like-molecules. Cohesion (social policy): the bonds or "glue" between members of a community or society. Cohesion (linguistics): the linguistic elements that make a discourse semantically coherent. Cohesion (structural): the sociological and graph theoretical conception and measurement for maximal group or graphical boundaries where related elements cannot be disconnected except by removal of a certain minimal number of other nodes.
Cohesion (military): the bonding together of members of an organization/unit in such a way as to sustain their will and commitment to each other, their unit, and the mission (Cohesion the Human Element in Combat, William Henderson, 1985).

Community cohesion refers to the aspect of togetherness and bonding exhibited by members of a community, the "glue" that holds a community together. This might include features such as a sense of common belonging or cultural similarity

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