Real Civil Societies

Dilemmas of Institutionalization

AvJeffrey Alexander

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

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Beskrivning

In recent social and political theory the term `civil society' has achieved renewed currency. Traditionally used in a normative or `ideal-type' sense, the term describes a form of social organization - that is simply neither economic nor political - where democracy, liberty and widespread solidarity are essential regulatory concepts.

Written from an empirical social-science perspective by some of the world's most important social theorists, this volume is a critical examination of the normative sense of `civil society'. It includes analyses of civil society and democracy, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and post-communism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1998-05-07
Mått:138 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt:290 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SAGE Studies in International Sociology
Antal sidor:256
Upplaga:1
Förlag:SAGE Publications
ISBN:9780761958215

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Jeffrey Alexander is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction - Jeffrey C AlexanderCivil Society I, II, III: Constructing an Empirical Concept from Normative Controversies and Historical TransformationsPART ONE: UNCIVIL HIERARCHIESBanfield′s Amoral Familism Revisited - Elisa P ReisImplications of High Inequality Structures for Civil SocietyBetween Economic Dissolution and the Return of the Social - Michael PuseyThe Contest for Civil Society in AustraliaCivil Society, Patronage, and Democracy - Luis RonigerCivil Society and Uncivil Organizations - G[um]oran AhrnePART TWO: BIFURCATING DISCOURSESCitizen and Enemy as Symbolic Classification - Jeffrey C AlexanderOn the Polarizing Discourse of Civil SocietyBarbarism and Civility in the Discourses of Fascism, Communism and Democracy - Philip SmithVariations on a Set of ThemesThe Racial Discourse of Civil Society - Ronald N JacobsThe Rodney King Affair and the City of Los AngelesPART THREE: ARBITRARY FOUNDINGSNeither Faith nor Commerce - David ZaretPrinting and the Unintended Origins of English Public OpinionMistrusting Civility - Piotr SztompkaPredicament of Post-Communist SocietyThe Public Sphere and a European Civil Society - V[ac]ictor P[ac]erez-D[ac]iaz