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A society is analogous in a variety of aspects to an individual. At a particular stage in time, a society contains all the creations it has made since inception with general or specific potentials and potentiality for the future. Around any point over space, a society holds the essential imagery of its existing wholeness with explicit or implicit consequences and consequentiality to the surroundings. In other words, the society encompasses collective differences and similarities in a comparative perspective while from a historical point of view it exhibits human encounters and experiences from commonsense to religion to science to a combination of all. This chapter follows human living comparatively from society to society and historically from stage to stage. With respect to “integration,” it maintains that integration is not only about incorporation, systemization, or universalization, but also about diversification, localization, or particularization. On the one hand, linking then, now, and the later represents integration in historical perspectives. People struggling over one modality can gain insights and assistances naturally from other moments of life. On the other hand, joining here, there, and the larger reflects integration through comparative dimensions. People striving in one style may seek inspirations and supports automatically from other realms of existence. |
