Social Diversity and Social Cohesion in Britain

Tak Wing Chan and Juta Kawalerowicz
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Tak Wing Chan: Social Research institute, University College London
Juta Kawalerowicz: Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University

No 22-10, DoQSS Working Papers from Quantitative Social Science - UCL Social Research Institute, University College London

Abstract: We use data from a large-scale and nationally representative survey to examine whether there is in Britain a trade-off between social diversity and social cohesion. Using six separate measures of social cohesion (generalised trust, volunteering, giving to charity, inter-ethnic friendship, and two neighbourhood cohesion scales) and four measures of social diversity (ethnic fractionalisation, religious fractionalisation, percentage muslim, and percentage foreign-born), we show that, net of individual covariates, there is a negative association between social diversity and most measures of social cohesion. But these associations disappear when neighbourhood deprivation is taken into account. These results are robust to alternative definitions of neighbourhood. We also investigate the possibility that the diversity–cohesion trade-off is found in more segregated neighbourhoods. But we find very little evidence to support that claim.

Keywords: Social cohesion; social diversity; deprivation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-12-01
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