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Social Cohesion in the Croatian Adriatic: A Comparative Analysis of the Dimensions of Social Cohesion in Istria and Dalmatia

There are multiple definitions of social cohesion, both scientific and political. Thus, the concept of social cohesion lacks a succinct and coherent definition and remains subject to different interpretations: such as political, which defines it as a term aimed at tackling social inequality, but primarily in economic terms (tackling poverty, unemployment ...). From a sociological point of view, social cohesion can be reduced to three basic dimensions: solidarity of society members, trust in the institutions of the society, and the general sociability of its members. The main objective of the paper is to comparatively analyze the degree of social cohesion in the counties of the Croatian Adriatic. The analysis will be carried out through the use of secondary data collected in the European Value Study 2018 project. For the purposes of this paper, questions directly related to the theoretical determinants of social cohesion are used. Special emphasis is placed on analyzing and interpreting the differences between the counties of the Croatian Adriatic in terms of solidarity/trust/sociability with respect to some socio-demographic characteristics (salaries, employment, age, traditional/modern attitude) of the respondents, and the data obtained are critically interpreted and contextualized.

social cohesion, Croatian Adriatic, European values study, solidarity, trust, sociability

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