Nordic Civil Sphere

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

The civil sphere is a distinctively democratic field in modern societies, one that sustains universalizing cultural aspirations and organizational structures and that has tense and uncertain boundaries with other spheres of social life, like the economy, religion, family, and state. Unlike the latter, which are more particularistic and hierarchical in character, the civil sphere defines itself in terms of solidarity – the feeling of being connected with every other person in the collectivity. The utopian ideals of democratic solidarity shape every modern society, even if they are often compromised by the messy realities of social life. This volume uses the theory of the civil sphere to shed new light on Nordic societies, while at the same time drawing on the distinctive experiences of the Nordic nations to reflect on and advance the theory of the civil sphere. Nordic societies have long been admired for creating a distinctive form of social democracy, but this admirable achievement has not been well conceptualized theoretically. Most attempts to explain Nordic social democracy focus on material and organizational factors. This volume, by contrast, emphasizes the cultural foundations and characteristics of social democracy, demonstrating how civil sensibilities are necessary for the creation of an egalitarian and democratic state. Nordic civil spheres, however, are not only pro-civil but also white in color, European in ethnicity, secular in character and gender-equal in a subtly restrictive manner. Such primordialization of state civility is vividly on display in the sometime tense relationships that develop among natives and “foreigners” in Nordic countries, relationships that expose the primordial undersides of the social democratic codes and civil values that constitute the Nordic civil sphere. A major contribution to the theory of the civil sphere and to our understanding of the cultural and normative underpinnings of social and political life, this volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars of sociology and politics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-11-15
Mått:147 x 229 x 31 mm
Vikt:612 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9781509538836

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Jeffrey C. Alexander is Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale UniversityAnna Lund is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Stockholm UniversityAndrea Voyer is an associate senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University

Recensioner i media

"The Nordic Civil Sphere deserves to be widely read, not only by students and by scholars who are interested in the particularities of the Nordic civil spheres, but by anyone interested in how the civil spheres of the Global North shape democracy, welfare, values, and processes of inclusion and exclusion."Acta Sociologica

Innehållsförteckning

Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Civil Spheres, Pro-Civil States, and their ContradictionsJeffrey C. Alexander, Anna Lund and Andrea Voyer Part I. Social Democracy and Civil Sphere 1 The Civil Sphere and the Welfare StateHenrik Enroth and Malin Henriksson 2 Nordic Civil Spheres and Pro-Civil StatesFredrik Engelstad and Håkon Larsen 3 Complicated TranslationsLiv Egholm Part II. The Struggle for Recognition: Performing Civility 4 You Can’t Liberate the Free: Gender, Work and Swedish HijabisHenrik Nilsson and Åsa Trulsson 5 Arts Difference and Incorporation: Swedish Hip-hop as a Site for Civil RepairCarly Elizabeth Schall 6 Sámi Sport in the Nordic Civil Sphere: Assimilation, Multiculturalism and Multiple Axes of MembershipEivind Å. Skille and Trygve B. Broch Part III. Civil and Uncivil Immigrant Identities7 ‘They’re immigrants who are kind of Swedish’: Universalism, Primordialism, and Modes of Incorporation in the Swedish Civil SphereAnna Lund and Andrea Voyer 8 Immigrant Incorporation in Education: High School Students’ Negotiation of BelongingStefan Lund Part IV. Nativism and Extremism in the Pro-Civil State 9 Global terrorism and the Civil Sphere in Norway: Renegotiating Civil CodesMarte Slagsvold Winsvold and Kari Steen-Johnsen 10 The True Finns/Finns Party: A Right-wing Populist Party and the Backlash against Multiculturalism in a Consensus-oriented Civil SpherePeter Kivisto and Pasi Saukkonen Commentary: The Civil State in the Nordic Region, and BeyondCarlo Tognato Conclusion: Developing Civil Sphere Theory the Nordic WayGiuseppe Sciortino and Trevor Stack

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