Research Guides: FYS 101: Sense of Belonging

Sense of Belonging Resources: Videos

Sense of Belonging Resources: Podcasts

Belonging: Conversations about rites of passage, meaningful community, and seasonal living

Bridging to Belonging Case Series

Lewis Howes and Brené Brown: Create True Belonging and Heal the World

The Create Belonging Podcast

Sense of Belonging Resources: Articles

Sense of Belonging Resources: Books

College Students' Sense of Belonging by Terrell L. Strayhorn
ISBN: 9781138238558
Publication Date: 2018-09-13
This book explores how belonging differs based on students' social identities, such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or the conditions they encounter on campus. Belonging--with peers, in the classroom, or on campus--is a critical dimension of success at college. It can affect a student's degree of academic adjustment, achievement, aspirations, or even whether a student stays in school. Underpinned by theory and research and offering practical guidelines for improving educational environments and policies, this book is an important resource for higher education and student affairs professionals, scholars, and graduate students interested in students' success.
Belonging Through a Psychoanalytic Lens by Rebecca Coleman Curtis (Editor)
ISBN: 9781000331653
Publication Date: 2020-12-29
Recent knowledge from patients and empirical research shows the importance of belonging to groups to both psychological and physical well-being. Whereas psychoanalytic theory has focused on the need for a secure attachment to a primary caretaker, it has failed to note the importance of a sense of belonging to the family group, a friendship group, a community, a religious group, a nation-state, etc. This book demonstrates the difficulties faced by those who immigrate, those who never feel a sense of their true selves as belonging in a family or a cohesive professional group, and the difficulties of psychoanalysts themselves in knowing where they belong in patients' lives.
Sister Outsider by Audre. Lorde
ISBN: 9780895941428
Publication Date: 1984-06-01
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change.
Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides by Geoffrey L. Cohen
ISBN: 9781324006183
Publication Date: 2022-09-13
Discover the secret to flourishing in an age of division: belonging. Belonging is the feeling of being a part of a group that values, respects, and cares for us. Packed with actionable insights and specific strategies, this book offers hope and practical guidance, serving as both an inspiration and a roadmap to creating a world of inclusion, understanding, and empathy.
Belonging by bell hooks
ISBN: 9780415968157
Publication Date: 2008-10-21
What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong? These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cultural critic Bell Hooks examines in her new book, Belonging: A Culture of Place. Hooks has written provocatively about race, gender, and class; and in this book she turns her attention to focus on issues of land and land ownership. Reflecting on the racism that continues to find expression in the world of real estate, she writes about segregation in housing and economic racialized zoning. With characteristic insight and honesty, Belonging offers a remarkable vision of a world where all people--wherever they may call home--can live fully and well, where everyone can belong.
On Belonging by Kim Samuel
ISBN: 9781419753039
Publication Date: 2022-09-13
In an age of social isolation, what does it mean to belong? On Belonging is an exploration of the crisis of social isolation and of the fundamental human need to belong. It considers belonging across four core dimensions: in our relationships with other people, in our rootedness in nature, in our ability to influence political and economic decision-making, and in our finding of meaning and purpose in our lives, with lessons on how to create communities centered on human connection. Whether through sports, medicine, music, business, culture, or advocacy, the people and programs in this book offer us meaningful lessons on building a world where we all feel at home.
Together by Vivek H. Murthy
ISBN: 9780062913302
Publication Date: 2023-04-11
In his groundbreaking book, the 19th surgeon general of the United States Dr. Vivek Murthy makes a case for loneliness as a public health concern: a root cause and contributor to many of the epidemics sweeping the world today from alcohol and drug addiction to violence to depression and anxiety. Loneliness, he argues, is affecting not only our health, but also how our children experience school, how we perform in the workplace, and the sense of division and polarization in our society. But, at the center of our loneliness is our innate desire to connect. We have evolved to participate in community, to forge lasting bonds with others, to help one another, and to share life experiences. We are, simply, better together. Loneliness was something so many people have known themselves or have seen in the people around them. Simply, it's a universal condition that affects all of us directly or through the people we love--now more than ever.

Sense of Belonging Resources: Scholarly Articles

Social Support and Physical Health: The Importance of Belonging

This study focuses on the connection between physical health and social support in college students. The key finding of this study is that a sense of belonging for women predicted better health perception and fewer physical symptoms for men.

Academic and Psychological Functioning in Late Adolescense: The Importance of School Belonging

This paper focuses on the sense of belonging in high school and how it impacts students in later adolescence and their psychological and academic adjustment to college.

Work-integrated learning and the importance of peer support and sense of belonging

This paper focuses on peer support and sense of belonging in relation to mental health and overall well being. They examine the importance of school as a social and learning environment and the impact of work-integrated learning programs.

(Re)crafting belonging: cultural-led regeneration, territorialization, and craft beer events

This article focuses on the use of craft beer events as a way to build a sense of belonging and community in urban areas.

Articulating 'Home' from 'Away': Cultural Identities, Belonging and Citizenship

This article centers around cultural identity and belonging and how they are always in the making. It also explores how citizenship impacts sense of belonging and its relation to the state.

Distinguishing the Need to Belong and Sense of Belongingness: The Relation between Need to Belong and Personal Appraisals under Two Different Belongingness Conditions

This article explores two different definitions of belonging in terms of the need to belong and be socially accepted and the fear of social exclusion.