| Description |
viii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Sage studies in international sociology ; 48 |
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Sage studies in international sociology ; 48
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| Contents |
1. Introduction. Civil Society I, II, III: Constructing an Empirical Concept from Normative Controversies and Historical Transformations / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- 2. Banfield's Amoral Familism Revisited: Implications of High Inequality Structures for Civil Society / Elisa P. Reis -- 3. Between Economic Dissolution and the Return of the Social: The Contest for Civil Society in Australia / Michael Pusey -- 4. Civil Society, Patronage, and Democracy / Luis Roniger -- 5. Civil Society and Uncivil Organizations / Goran Ahrne -- 6. Citizen and Enemy as Symbolic Classification: On the Polarizing Discourse of Civil Society / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- 7. Barbarism and Civility in the Discourses of Fascism, Communism, and Democracy: Variations on a Set of Themes / Philip Smith -- 8. The Racial Discourse of Civil Society: The Rodney King Affair and the City of Los Angeles / Ronald N. Jacobs |
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9. Neither Faith nor Commerce: Printing and the Unintended Origins of English Public Opinion / David Zaret -- 10. Mistrusting Civility: Predicament of a Post-Communist Society / Piotr Sztompka -- 11. The Public Sphere and a European Civil Society / Victor Perez-Diaz |
| Notes |
"Sponsored by the International Sociological Association/ISA." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Civil society.
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| Author |
Alexander, Jeffrey C., 1947-
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International Sociological Association.
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| LC no. |
98060455 |
| ISBN |
0761958207 |
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0761958215 |
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