... a simple social movement or social group can no longer capitulate the constantly changing world. Thus, the concern has shifted from finding the unifying "world spirit" to building the solidarity between organizations. Under this concern, the Enlightenment gained its new importance, as Bronner argues, that is to provide "the ideological willingness to embrace the assumptions" in order to ... achieve solidarity. To better understand the effect of Enlightenment ideas on contemporary society, Bronner contends that it is necessary to break down the metaphysical idea and view it from both ide...

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... sphere is separated from private kinship relations. The kinship does not essentially function any more in contemporary social organizations. In addition, as to the social order, Durkheim sees the emechanical solidarity as of pre-industrial societies rested on shared beliefs and values, located primarily in the econscious collective. However, the advent of industrial society sees the emergence of a new form of ... eorganic solidarity, based on interdependence arising out of socialization and differentiation (1998: 618). Thus, the social order altered from collective, kinship relate...

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... cause, since all they could conceive of in life was their social ties. Therefore, the more the Americans escalated the conflict to intimidate them, the more the Vietnamese could muster solidarity, lose "less and less to lose by fighting on", and gain a "capacity for endurance in suffering [as] an instrument for exploiting a basic weakness of the Christian West," (Hoopes 2). The lesson ... ...

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... the U.S. Nonetheless, its power is undeniable. In this process, religious traditions can help in the process of forming Asian immigrant communities by giving specific Asian ethnic groups another source of solidarity, in addition to their common ethnicity, on which to build relationships and cooperation. ...

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