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La cohésion sociale : critique dialectique d’un quasi-conceptSocial Cohesion : A Dialectical Criticism of a Quasi-ConceptCohesión social : crítica dialéctica de un cuasi-conceptoPaul Bernard

Les mots pour le dire, les mots pour le faire : le nouveau vocabulairedu socialNumber 41, printemps 1999

URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/005057arDOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/005057ar

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Cite this articleBernard, P. (1999). La cohésion sociale : critique dialectique d’un quasi-concept. Lien social et Politiques, (41), 47–59. https://doi.org/10.7202/005057ar

Article abstractFocusing on the concept of social cohesion, this article arrives at twoconclusions. The first is that equality, understood in the terms of the FrenchRevolution, is an essential part of a democratic social order. It is linked in adialectical relationship to the other two dimensions, those of liberty andsolidarity. Secondly, this dialectic functions at two levels, themselves in adialectical relationship. At one level, there is formal equality, granting everymember of society the fundamental equal right to recognition, integration andjustice from institutions involved in conflict resolution. The second level is thatof substantive equality, the space in which people may choose to engage indebate about social issues, to create common values, and seek social justice.