cohesion

Examples of cohesion in the following topics:

• Team Cohesiveness

  • Team cohesion develops over time.
  • Social scientists have explained the phenomenon of group cohesiveness in different ways.
  • Team cohesion is related to a range of positive and negative consequences.
  • Members of more cohesive groups tend to communicate with one another in a more positive fashion than those of less cohesive groups.
  • Membership in a cohesive team can also have negative consequences.

• Water’s Cohesive and Adhesive Properties

  • This water can stay above the glass because of the property of cohesion.
  • Cohesion and surface tension keep the hydrogen bonds of water molecules intact and support the item floating on the top.
  • Why are cohesive and adhesive forces important for life?
  • Cohesive and adhesive forces are important for the transport of water from the roots to the leaves in plants.
  • Water's cohesive and adhesive properties allow this water strider (Gerris sp.) to stay afloat.

• Mechanical and Organic Solidarity

  • Mechanical and organic solidarity are concepts referring to different modes of establishing and maintaining social order and cohesion.
  • Although individuals perform very different roles in an organization, and often have different values and interests, there is a cohesion that arises from the compartmentalization and specialization woven into "modern" life.
  • Solidarity describes connections between individuals that allow them to form a cohesive social network.
  • Mechanical solidarity refers to connection, cohesion, and integration born from homogeneity, or similar work, education, religiosity, and lifestyle.
  • Although individuals perform very different roles in an organization, and they often have different values and interests, there is a cohesion that arises from the compartmentalization and specialization woven into "modern" life.

• Effects of Group Size on Stability and Intimacy

  • Since it is easier for fewer people to agree on goals and to coordinate their work, smaller groups are more cohesive than larger groups.
  • A group is said to be in a state of cohesion when its members possess bonds linking them to one another and to the group as a whole.
  • According to Festinger, Schachter, and Back (1950), group cohesion develops from a field of binding social forces that act on members to stay in the group.
  • Since it is easier for fewer people to agree on goals and to coordinate their work, smaller groups are often more cohesive than larger groups.
  • Group cohesiveness may suffer, though, if the group lacks enough members to perform its tasks well.

• Surface Tension

  • The tendency of the surface of a liquid to resist a force and behave like a membrane and is a result of cohesion between liquid molecules.
  • This effect is a result of cohesion of the molecules of the liquid causing the surface of the liquid to contract to the smallest area possible.
  • The contact angle is measured in the liquid and depends on the relative strength of cohesive forces in the liquid and adhesive forces between the liquid and interface materials.
  • If the cohesive forces are greater than the adhesive forces, the resulting contact angles will be large and will form a more circular drop .
  • When a water droplet forms on a leaf, the cohesive forces between the water molecules are greater than the adhesive forces between the water and leaf surface.

• Surface Tension and Capillary Action

  • Attractive forces between molecules of the same type are called cohesive forces.
  • Liquids can, for example, be kept in open containers because cohesive forces hold the molecules together.
  • In this section we examine effects of cohesive and adhesive forces in liquids.
  • This property is caused by cohesion of similar molecules and is responsible for many of the behaviors of liquids.
  • The cohesive forces among liquid molecules are responsible for the phenomenon of surface tension, as shown in .

• Capillary Action

  • When attractive forces occur between like molecules, they are referred to as cohesive forces, or resulting in cohesion, because they hold the molecules of sample close together.
  • These cohesive forces are especially strong at the surface of a liquid, resulting in the phenomenon of surface tension.
  • For example, the hydrogen bonds between water molecules are responsible for the cohesion observed in water droplets.
  • It occurs when the intermolecular attractive forces between the liquid and the solid surrounding surfaces (adhesive forces) are stronger than the cohesive forces within the liquid.
  • A convex meniscus occurs when the molecules have a stronger attraction to each other (cohesion) than to the material of the container (adhesion), causing the surface of the liquid to cave downward.

• Cohesiveness

  • Advocacy groups that form along ideological, ethnic, or foreign policy objectives tend to have higher levels of internal cohesion.
  • A social group exhibits some degree of social cohesion and is more than a simple collection or aggregate of individuals, such as people waiting at a bus stop or people waiting in a line.
  • According to Ambrosio, "like other societal interest groups, ethnic identity groups establish formal organizations devoted to promoting group cohesiveness and addressing group concerns. " While many formal organizations, established by ethnic identity groups, are apolitical, others are created explicitly for political purposes.
  • Antecedent factors, such as group cohesiveness, structural faults, and situational context, play into the likelihood of whether or not groupthink will impact the decision-making process.

• Functions of Religion

  • Given this approach, Durkheim proposed that religion has three major functions in society: it provides social cohesion to help maintain social solidarity through shared rituals and beliefs, social control to enforce religious-based morals and norms to help maintain conformity and control in society, and it offers meaning and purpose to answer any existential questions.
  • Religion, he argued, was an expression of social cohesion.
  • In one sense, this still fits the structural-functional approach as it provides social cohesion among the members of one party in a conflict.
  • For instance, the social cohesion among the members of a terrorist group is high, but in a broader sense, religion is obviously resulting in conflict without questioning its actions against other members of society.

• The Nature of Groups

  • A social group exhibits some degree of social cohesion and is more than a simple collection or aggregate of individuals, such as people waiting at a bus stop or people waiting in a line.
  • Explicitly contrasted with a social cohesion-based definition for social groups is the social identity perspective, which draws on insights made in social identity theory.
  • The social identity approach posits that the necessary and sufficient conditions for the formation of social groups is "awareness of a common category membership" and that a social group can be "usefully conceptualized as a number of individuals who have internalized the same social category membership as a component of their self concept. " Stated otherwise, while the social cohesion approach expects group members to ask "who am I attracted to?
  • Contrast the social cohesion-based concept of a social group with the social identity concept