SOCIAL COHESION: AN INCLUSIVE RURAL-URBAN AGGLOMERATION CONTEXT

Abstract

Social cohesion as an ideal and goal of social development has not yet been translated into real life practice even in highly developed countries. Although her importance for the harmonious development of the human community is difficult to overestimate. The purpose of the study is to justify contextualization as a way of comparing the phenomena of social cohesion and inclusiveness of rural-urban agglomerations of Ukraine. For its implementation, the task of identifying the essence and social purpose of social cohesion, revealing the place and role of social cohesion in the system of inclusive development of the UTC and districts, clarification of the connection between social cohesion and agri-rural inclusive development of agglomerations. Methodology of research. Systemic, synergistic and institutional approaches, the principle of interdisciplinary, with inclusion in the scientific analysis of modern professional publications of foreign and Ukrainian economists, sociologists and geographers, methods of observation, comparison, induction and deduction, analysis and synthesis were used to achieve the goal of the research. Findings. The scientific novelty of the study is the use of contextualization as a way of identifying the common and different between social cohesion and socio-spatial inclusiveness in order to reveal the kinship of these social phenomena. The multidimensional nature of social cohesion, in which her worldview and economic components take precedence, has been proven. The significant role of cohesion, which is realized in the practical activities of members of society in the process of gradual deployment of inclusiveness within the rural-urban agglomerations of Ukraine, has been clarified. Availability detected of significant natural and human potential in the composition of rural-urban agglomerations, which actualizes the problem of overcoming socio-economic inequality between rural and urban components of agglomeration socio-spatial formations. In view of the above, the prospects of further scientific research in this direction should be aimed at more effective use of the synergistic effect of the connection between social cohesion and socio-spatial inclusiveness. Practical value. The results of the study have an important practical focus on the cohesion of the Ukrainian the public around the problem of the post-war reproduction of UTC and districts on the basis of inclusiveness.