What Is Social Integration?

What is the meaning of integration? What are the gradual stages of humanity’s integration? Have we reached the level of integration nature demands from us? What is missing from a true integration among people? What law determines how we need to integrate? What is ahead of humanity today? Integration comes from the Latin word integratio, “insertion,” and means restoration, completion, the process of inserting some part into something. Social integration is the process of establishing optimal connections between relatively independent social objects. People in ancient times united into tribes, and then, larger communities. As time went on, the groupings became larger as people multiplied until finally, empires arose. An empire occurs when integration is made by force accompanied by the seizure of large territories. This integration or union of people is purely an external one. The smaller groups within the larger empire, although in contact, live on their own. The army maintains cohesion by collecting taxes