Solidarity is basically used to describe integration of societies or people with each other. Societies having solidarity exhibit high levels and degree of integration. Solidarity indicates the ties in a relation that bind people to one another. Solidarity is basically a term used in social sciences and sociology. According to Christian Lous Lange, “Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.” A society possessing great amount of solidarity is quite united and all its members stay together in harmony. What forms the basis of solidarity varies between societies. Solidarity basically implies the strength of integration or unity which binds a society and its members into a single, cohesive unit. In the words of Jacques Delores, “For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.”
