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The term "corporate" has been employed in literature to denote a sense of collective unity and organized structure, encompassing both metaphorical and literal applications. In sociological works—most notably those by Burgess and Park—it appears as "corporate action," a term used to describe how consensus or unified behavior emerges among individuals, imbuing social phenomena with a quality that transcends mere cooperation [1], [2], [3], [4]. In political and economic discourse, as seen in The Communist Manifesto and The Jewish State, "corporate" identifies structured entities such as guilds or formal bodies that exercise power and control within society [5], [6], [7]. Moreover, literary texts offering more symbolic narratives incorporate the term to evoke extended qualities; for instance, Edgar Allan Poe portrays a "corporate Silence" and speaks of a divested "corporate investiture" that elevates a character almost to a divine status [8], [9]. Even in discussions of military virtue and statecraft—as in the works of Clausewitz and Rousseau—the idea of a corporate will or spirit is central to expressing integrated collective forces [10], [11]. Finally, in modern contexts, "corporate" extends its scope to represent formal organizational entities within the business and technological spheres [12], [13], [14].
  1. Consensus even more than co-operation or corporate action is the distinctive mark of human society.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  2. Dance : bibliography , 938 -39; and corporate action, 870 -71.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  3. "How does a mere collection of individuals succeed in acting in a corporate and consistent way?"
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  4. They are not individual but corporate products.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  5. Its last words are: corporate guilds for manufacture, patriarchal relations in agriculture.
    — from The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
  6. The gestor of the Jews must therefore be a body corporate.
    — from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl
  7. Security for the integrity of the idea and the vigor of its execution will be found in the creation of a body corporate, or corporation.
    — from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl
  8. He is the corporate Silence: dread him not!
    — from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe
  9. Divested of corporate investiture, he were God.
    — from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe
  10. This corporate spirit forms the bond of union between the natural forces which are active in that which we have called military virtue.
    — from On War by Carl von Clausewitz
  11. In this case the individual and the corporate will are absolutely one, and therefore this will has reached the greatest possible degree of intensity.
    — from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  12. Registration for businesses —————————————- All Corporate site licence options include six updates during the next 12 months.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno
  13. Other corporate applications of such services include internal organizational development and communications, and coordination of projects.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno
  14. Lotus cc:Mail is a PC Lan based email system used in corporate, government and other organizations.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno

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