Current research interests: Quality of life and well-being in old age, health and health behavior, social relations and social integration of older persons, intergenerational family solidarity and societal solidarity, comparative ageing research.
Being confronted with the destructive individualization of atomistic neo-liberalism, some politics and political parties in Europe turn back to the best known and historically rather compromised mechanism of societal integration by fostering collectivist nationalism.
Additionally, students demonstrated deeper understanding of the mechanisms by which immigrants sought cultural and societal integration in 19th-century America.
These differences may relate to recency of migration, availability of family and social support, differences in religious beliefs, cultural attitudes and expectations, and the extent of societal integration more broadly.
Further, the fact that the adoption of a German life style was associated with poor sleep in both samples, suggests that the process of societal integration appears to have a negative effect on sleep quality.
At the same time, individualization provokes and reproduces tensions and conflicts due to the weakening of the mechanisms of social and societal integration.
As Goodman and Wright (2015) argue, there is a lack of studies of 'the larger questions of effects of civic integration [requirements] on societal integration generally'.6 This article contributes to the discussion about the importance of citizenship and citizenship policy by turning to the issue of immigrants' host national belonging across Western democracies.
Finally, the societal integration has to be pushed forward as e.g., public acceptance of geothermal plants is often low due to possible seismic events.
We take extremely seriously the responsibility to work together to share intelligence, stop the flow of money to terrorists, counter violent extremism in our own communities including through effective economic and societal integration, and monitor and break up the networks that facilitate the flow of foreign fighters to and from the battlefield.
Scott delivers a vision of a pure and impersonal scientific meritocracy, and he envisions science and its locked-in binary implacability (leading to the ultimate binary opposition — life or death) as a model for societal integration.
As a result, naturalisation is seen as neither a means nor end of the integration process, since all legal residents should have the legal means for societal integration.
