Ontological modelling and conceptual architecture of social cohesion
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Mykhailovska, Olena
Liashenko, Oksana
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Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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La investigación sobre educación, tolerancia hacia los inmigrantes y cohesión social en Europa se caracteriza por una gran riqueza conceptual, pero también por una notable fragmentación estructural. Las distintas tradiciones disciplinares operacionalizan estos conceptos en niveles de análisis diferentes y según prioridades normativas y metodológicas divergentes. Como resultado, las relaciones teóricas suelen quedar implícitas en lugar de estar formalmente especificadas. Este estudio propone un modelo conceptual basado en ontología que formaliza las relaciones entre educación, diversidad, contacto, confianza, identidad, tolerancia, cohesión social y modelos de política pública dentro de un marco semántico unificado. El modelo se desarrolló mediante un proceso estructurado de extracción conceptual a partir de literatura científica europea revisada por pares, organización jerárquica de clases centrales y especificación de propiedades relacionales entre los constructos. La ontología fue implementada en OWL utilizando Protégé y verificada mediante un razonador de lógica descriptiva. La ontología resultante clarifica las relaciones conceptuales entre educación, diversidad, confianza, identidad, tolerancia y cohesión social, y demuestra cómo estos constructos pueden organizarse en una arquitectura semántica coherente de múltiples niveles. El estudio analiza además las implicaciones del modelado ontológico para integrar tradiciones de investigación fragmentadas y para apoyar futuras operacionalizaciones empíricas en estudios comparativos europeos.
Research on tolerance, education, and social cohesion is characterised by conceptual richness but structural fragmentation. Different disciplinary traditions operationalise these constructs at distinct levels of analysis and according to divergent normative and methodological priorities. As a result, theoretical pathways are often implied rather than explicitly specified. This study proposes an ontology-based conceptual model that formalises the relationships between education, diversity, contact, trust, identity, tolerance, social cohesion, and policy models within a unified semantic framework. The model was developed through structured concept extraction from peer-reviewed European literature, hierarchical organisation of core classes, and specification of object properties representing admissible relations between constructs. The ontology was implemented in OWL using Protégé and logically verified with a description-logic reasoner. The resulting ontology clarifies the conceptual relationships between education, diversity, trust, identity, tolerance and social cohesion and demonstrates how these constructs can be organised into a coherent multi-level semantic architecture. The study discusses the implications of ontology-based modelling for integrating fragmented research traditions and for supporting future empirical operationalisation in European comparative studies.
Research on tolerance, education, and social cohesion is characterised by conceptual richness but structural fragmentation. Different disciplinary traditions operationalise these constructs at distinct levels of analysis and according to divergent normative and methodological priorities. As a result, theoretical pathways are often implied rather than explicitly specified. This study proposes an ontology-based conceptual model that formalises the relationships between education, diversity, contact, trust, identity, tolerance, social cohesion, and policy models within a unified semantic framework. The model was developed through structured concept extraction from peer-reviewed European literature, hierarchical organisation of core classes, and specification of object properties representing admissible relations between constructs. The ontology was implemented in OWL using Protégé and logically verified with a description-logic reasoner. The resulting ontology clarifies the conceptual relationships between education, diversity, trust, identity, tolerance and social cohesion and demonstrates how these constructs can be organised into a coherent multi-level semantic architecture. The study discusses the implications of ontology-based modelling for integrating fragmented research traditions and for supporting future empirical operationalisation in European comparative studies.
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Ontology-based modelling
Cultural diversity
Education
Tolerance toward immigrants
Social cohesion
Trust
Identity formation
Conceptual integration
Europe
Modelado basado en ontologías
Diversidad cultural
Educación
Tolerancia hacia los inmigrantes
Cohesión social
Confianza
Formación de la identidad
Integración conceptual
Europa
Cultural diversity
Education
Tolerance toward immigrants
Social cohesion
Trust
Identity formation
Conceptual integration
Europe
Modelado basado en ontologías
Diversidad cultural
Educación
Tolerancia hacia los inmigrantes
Cohesión social
Confianza
Formación de la identidad
Integración conceptual
Europa
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Comparative cultural studies: European and Latin American Perspectives, ISSN-e 2531-9884, Vol. 1, Nº. 22, 2026 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Ethnic and cultural diversity in the construction of national and global identities: challenges towards culture for sustainability)
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