why individuals identify when they have coincident preferences. According to Stavenhagen, this explanation is to be sought in a difference between two forms of communities or unifications. According to him, "mediate" unifications (the kinds of we that arises from the individuals' mutual awareness of their overlapping preferences) are grounded in unifications of an "immediate" kind (these are I-Thou relations that rely on reciprocal friendly sentiments) in the sense that the former are weaker – i.e., not yet fully actualized – forms of the latter." /> Kurt Stavenhagen on the phenomenology of the we - Salice Alessandro | sdvig press