Social cohesion of Vietnamese workers: Overview of researches on social cohesion

Abstract

Social cohesion, in general definition, is the concept of cohesion or integration, talking about the combination and adaptation of elements of a system, allowing those elements to form a balanced whole. There are many works, papers etc., mentioning certain aspects related to social cohesion. Social cohesion of works in industrial zones is a new research topic. On the basis of Peter Blau’s theory of “Social structure”,  Pieere Bourdieu’s theory of “Mental structure and network of relations between objective positions”, the author has approached research results from the works, papers etc., on the level of individual, group and institution cohesion from 1996 to 2014, initially classifying researches in Vietnam under a certain scientific approach for a certain social relation.