Durkheim proposed that religious beliefs functioned to reinforce social solidarity.
迪尔凯姆提出宗教信仰的作用是加强社会团结。
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They developed collectives and established cultural centers that functioned as the public-relations arm of the Chicano sociopolitical movement.
他们发展成集体而且建立了若干文化中心，后者在墨西哥裔社会政治运动中作为公共关系力量发挥作用。
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In these days the pre-industrial city in America functioned as a complex and varied organizing element in American life, not as a simple, homogeneous, and static unit.