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Scitus Academics LLC Society and Culture Scarcity and Solidarity by Ludoviko Herrera
Ever since the inception of the scientific discipline of sociology in the
turbulent 19th century, solidarity has been among its founding concepts. As
modern societies developed and were transformed through broad societal
trends such as industrialization, individualization, globalization, migration,
etc., sociologists have rethought and reformulated the concept of solidarity
over and over again in a continued attempt to grasp the sources of social
cohesion in rapidly changing societies.Solidarity covers a range of
relationships, from political affiliation, commitment, and participation to
identification, recognition, and cultural engagement, through to
interpersonal constructions of intimate and emotional relations.In simpler
societies, solidarity is usually based on kinship ties or familial networks. In
more complex societies, solidarity is more organic, referring to the
interdependence of the component parts. Thus, social solidarity is
maintained in more complex societies through the interdependence of its
component parts.Solidarity has yet another side: solidarity does not need to
be imposed on a person from the outside, by means of violence. This virtue
is born all by itself, spontaneously, from the heart. Solidarity has a curious
absent presence in social theory and analysis. Whilst the concept of
solidarity would seem to be a critical feature in any form of collective
community, organization, or association, it is often used as either a
descriptor or a characteristic of competing models of social cohesion and
communality in society. It is regarded as a characteristic of societies or
communities to be aspired to, rather than a central explanatory concept.
Social and political theorists of society have used other concepts and ideas
that do the work of providing the conceptual basis for explaining the way
societies work and how they change.
Society and Culture: Scarcity and Solidarity aims to promote international
studies and ideas of perspectives and research in the sometimes
contradictory, sometimes conflicting areas of social differences and
diversities and social cohesion and solidarity. In the context of a world
where religious, nationalist, ethnic, gender, and political differences appear
prominent and deeply contested, strategic attempts at social solidarity, such
as multiculturalism, are open to critical questioning.It seeks to provide
argument and evidence that may also provoke thinking and action in the
political domain