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The Rise and Fall of Social Cohesion: The Construction and De-construction of Social Trust in the US, UK, Sweden and Denmark
Larsen, Christian Albrekt. The Rise and Fall of Social Cohesion: The Construction and De-construction of Social Trust in the US, UK, Sweden and Denmark. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Why this matters here
Larsen’s comparative study of social cohesion in the US, UK, Sweden, and Denmark examines how trust tracks perceptions of a meritocratic social middle versus an untrustworthy bottom, and how those constructions can be built or dismantled. Trust Beyond Similarity cites that relational filter when familiar colleagues make some realities easy to notice and others hard to hear. The source analyzes trust and cohesion across national cases; the book asks what familiarity quietly finishes when coordination feels complete.
