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Enacting Solidarity

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With the macro-, meso- and micro-level of social reality correspond different modes of solidarity, which partly explains the concept’s multidimensionality. This is illustrated though an analysis of three empirical studies.

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  1. KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Rudi Laermans

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  1. KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Ine Van Hoyweghen

  2. KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Valeria Pulignano

  3. KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Gert Meyers

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Laermans, R. (2020). Enacting Solidarity. In: Van Hoyweghen, I., Pulignano, V., Meyers, G. (eds) Shifting Solidarities . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44062-6_10

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