...d indulging in formatted games of chance or gambling as they are more formally known there is not a single society or culture which has not experienced the over-whelming influence this game had on sha...
The words "civil society " name the space of uncoerced human association and also the set of relational networks-formed for the sake of family, faith, interest, and ideology--that fill this s
There is an ambiguity in the idea of "civil society " as the arena of private economic and social relations, rather than of government. First, there is the idea that these relations are freel
The concept of civil society has recently become fashionable thanks to struggles against communist and military dictatorships, first in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and second in Latin America
"Civil society ," much more than "state," "government," "power," or even "democracy," is a term of art in political theory. There is no discovering wha
... this passage to be an expression of anxiety on Marx's part. The danger with what one might call civil society , for Marx, is that one might become something fixed, a hunter, a critic and so forth....
...age for my turn to two evolving traditions--Catholic social thought and the democratic theorizing of civil society emerging from Central Eastern Europe--as sources of insight and strength for American...
...y seem quite cumbersome, but in view of the great dangers AIDS poses for individuals and the high costs to society , these measures are clearly appropriate. One may and ought to argue about the detail...
...bsp;Are we capable of social learning? Are we capable of moral vision? What can we possibly mean by a good society under modern circumstances? What would the political institutions of a good society l...
.... Rousseau, for example, was terribly concerned with asking about the consequences of a particular kind of society for the kind of characters it produces. In Rameau's Nephew, Diderot tried to show...
...ond principle of communal democracy is the primacy of the community over the state. Here the idea of civil society is especially relevant. This principle has very important constitutional significance...
...ant or prominent subject of economical science. I do not know whether all members of the recently founded Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics would adopt (or accept) the label "commun...
...e functioning of the welfare state as well as the institutional richness and democratic reach of the civil society depends heavily on the economic efficiency of a given society . Now, the question is: ...
... socialism. They are complete perversions of the great vision of socialism. And instead of creating a free society of equal chances and international solidarity, they established an especially crude f...
...nger to freedom, especially in connection with other dehumanizing trends in the development of our type of society . The overprotective state is to a large extent the natural product of the dynamics in...
...luntary act of recognizing others as deserving one's esteem, care and support is possible in a secular society where the responsibility to help is not always already commanded by religion, traditi...
...er again, because of the importance of the doctrine of laissez faire in the United States. This has been a society in which mobility and expansion (perhaps we could call it the frontier thesis in many...
...s represented those of humanity as a whole. The proletariat's victory was to give birth to a classless society --the first truly universal society . Nations and nationalism had to be viewed as epiph...
...actual fact, in most sociological terms, Northern Ireland is a more peaceful, more stable, and a more sane society than most of the rest of Britain, in spite of the fact that a certain number of peopl...
...hat is by no means over. Conservatives argue that the media and the arts are the institutions in American society most thoroughly dominated by the liberal outlook. There clearly is some truth in this...
...as to recognize the enormous difficulties the young and victorious Russian democracy is facing. The Soviet society is completely unprepared for deep economic and governmental reforms. The stabilizatio...
... another set of academic specialists, who hardly address a public. Those pursuing inquiry into history and society often suppose that they can dispense with questions of direction, purpose, and value ...
... favor of a complete reversal of the Left identity. So far it has been generally identified with a view of society that put homogeneity, equality, and harmony as its central values. Pluralism, differe...
... of Social Democracy. Democracy cannot be restricted to political institutions, but must spread throughout society , internationalism, as well as global and local solidarity. Human rights, citizen righ...
...le of political organization accepted almost worldwide, while the market economy and the autonomy of civil society have simultaneously become universal paradigms. Thus, the process initiated in the a...
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