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COES meeting: Results from a Longitudinal Survey on Social Change in Chile

Mon, May 27, 4:00 to 5:30pm, TBA

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Social Change in Chile:The combination of high inequality and segregation coupled with low social mobility have reactivated social movements and triggered many protests and conflicts in Chile during the last decade. In addition, numerous political scandals (including cases of corruption and child abuse in the Catholic Church) have created a national crisis of confidence in the legitimacy of the country’s elite political establishment and institutions.
One of the main questions that emerges as a result of this context is how social conflict and cohesion in Chile have developed in recent years, and what have been the causes of the rapid social change we have witnessed.
COES is a multidisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study of these phenomena. To monitor these changes, we have established different observatories that monitor both conflict and cohesion as well as undertaking a panel study of social change in Chile (the Longitudinal Social Study of Chile, ELSOC). This roundtable will present results from these observatories and from the longitudinal study to initiate a discussion of comparative social change in Chile and across Latin America. In particular, the questions guiding our discussion will relate to which role newly emerging middle classes have played in accelerating social change; how crises of legitimacy are affecting political developments in the region; how spatial segregation triggers conflicts while simultaneously impeding cohesion; how intergroup contacts facilitate can alleviate tensions; and how public policy in the region can respond to social change in a way that furthers democratic development,social dialogue and citizen participation.

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