See also: Bond

The concept of Social link means in Sociologie the whole of the memberships, the affiliations, the relations which link the social people or groups between them. The social link represents the force which bind, for example, the members of a family between them, or the members of a community. This force can vary in time and space; i.e. the social link can be found more or less extremely according to the context in which locates the studied phenomenon. When that the social link becomes of low intensity or poor quality, certain researchers approach the problems under the angle of the " crise" social link since the quality and the intensity of the social link act like determinants of quality and intensity of our social Rapports.

Crisis of the social link

Some factors such as the increase in the social Inequality S or the life within a totalitarian mode influence the deterioration of the quality and the intensity of the social link. Several contemporary changes can also see associated with the Densité social link, such as for example the increase in divorces, increasing individualization, the riots and the delinquency. There is between-other Francis Farrugia and Joelle Bordet which studied the social changes of a company in particular; contemporary France, under the angle of the crisis of the social link. They conclude from it that the rise of the social inequalities increases the social strains. What can explain why part of the population “takes down”; the bond breaks, for example by refusing to vote. This degradation of the social link could also explain, according to these researchers, certain phenomena of violence in the young people. Recently, an overall analysis was devoted to the erosion of the social link in the countries economically advanced by The International Scope Review .

Internal bonds

Bibliography about the crisis of the social link

Contextual approaches

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Conceptual approaches

  • Francis Farrugia, the crisis of the social link: test of sociology criticizes , Harmattan, 1993

  • Francis Farrugia, Archéologie of the social pact: ethical and sociopolitic bases of the modern society , Harmattan, 1994
  • Pierre Herdsman, the social link , Gallimard, 2005

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