Author: Peter Robert Sawyer
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791461853
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Using a life history approach, looks at what influences citizens to participate in the voluntary associations that comprise and promote civil society.
Socialization to Civil Society
Author: Peter Robert Sawyer
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791461853
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Using a life history approach, looks at what influences citizens to participate in the voluntary associations that comprise and promote civil society.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791461853
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Using a life history approach, looks at what influences citizens to participate in the voluntary associations that comprise and promote civil society.
Socialization and Civil Society
Author: Micha de Winter
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9462090920
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
There is a clear relation between the way children are raised and the way the world is heading. Famous philosophers and educationists such as Kant, Dewey, Montessori and Freire, exposed clearly the direct link between the social and political abuses of their time and the way in which children were brought up. From their analysis they each conceived the ambition of making the world a better place through educational reform. For various reasons it is not fashionable these days to make any kind of direct connection between child upbringing and ‘the state of the world’. The project of child-rearing gradually became focussed on individual development. In this book, Dutch child-psychologist Micha de Winter argues that there should be much more to child-raising, education and youth policy – for example, to learn to understand and practice democratic citizenship, humanity and freedom. What does it mean to live in a democratic society, how do you resist the seductions of ‘them-versus-us’ thinking which both offers the feelings of security and of belonging to a group and at the same time invites the risk of dehumanizing and excluding the other? Socialization from this perspective is a common responsibility that requires an educative civil society.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9462090920
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
There is a clear relation between the way children are raised and the way the world is heading. Famous philosophers and educationists such as Kant, Dewey, Montessori and Freire, exposed clearly the direct link between the social and political abuses of their time and the way in which children were brought up. From their analysis they each conceived the ambition of making the world a better place through educational reform. For various reasons it is not fashionable these days to make any kind of direct connection between child upbringing and ‘the state of the world’. The project of child-rearing gradually became focussed on individual development. In this book, Dutch child-psychologist Micha de Winter argues that there should be much more to child-raising, education and youth policy – for example, to learn to understand and practice democratic citizenship, humanity and freedom. What does it mean to live in a democratic society, how do you resist the seductions of ‘them-versus-us’ thinking which both offers the feelings of security and of belonging to a group and at the same time invites the risk of dehumanizing and excluding the other? Socialization from this perspective is a common responsibility that requires an educative civil society.
Socialization to Civil Society
Author: Peter Robert Sawyer
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791461860
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Using a life history approach, looks at what influences citizens to participate in the voluntary associations that comprise and promote civil society.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791461860
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Using a life history approach, looks at what influences citizens to participate in the voluntary associations that comprise and promote civil society.
Reproducing Sectarianism
Author: Paul W. T. Kingston
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438447132
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The Arab Spring in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere has highlighted the growing importance of the politics of civil society in the contemporary Middle East. In Reproducing Sectarianism, Paul W. T. Kingston examines rights-oriented advocacy networks within Lebanon's postwar civil society, focusing on movements and political campaigns based on gender relations, the environment, and disability. Set within Lebanon's postwar sectarian democracy, whose factionalizing dynamics have long penetrated the country's civil society, Kingston's fascinating study provides an in-depth analysis of the successes and challenges that ensued in promoting rights-oriented social policies. Drawing on extensive field research, including interviews and a wealth of primary documents, Kingston has produced a groundbreaking work that will be of interest to Middle East experts and nonexperts alike.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438447132
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The Arab Spring in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere has highlighted the growing importance of the politics of civil society in the contemporary Middle East. In Reproducing Sectarianism, Paul W. T. Kingston examines rights-oriented advocacy networks within Lebanon's postwar civil society, focusing on movements and political campaigns based on gender relations, the environment, and disability. Set within Lebanon's postwar sectarian democracy, whose factionalizing dynamics have long penetrated the country's civil society, Kingston's fascinating study provides an in-depth analysis of the successes and challenges that ensued in promoting rights-oriented social policies. Drawing on extensive field research, including interviews and a wealth of primary documents, Kingston has produced a groundbreaking work that will be of interest to Middle East experts and nonexperts alike.
Generating Social Capital
Author: M. Hooghe
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403979545
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Social capital - networks of civic engagements, norms of reciprocity, and attitudes of trust - is widely seen as playing a key role for the health of democracy. While many authors have examined the consequences of social capital, there is a pressing need to explore its sources. This collection brings together leading American and European scholars in the first comparative analysis of how social trust and other civic attitudes are generated. The contributors to this volume examine the generation of social capital from two directions: society-based approaches that emphasize voluntary associations, and institutional approaches that emphasize policy.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403979545
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Social capital - networks of civic engagements, norms of reciprocity, and attitudes of trust - is widely seen as playing a key role for the health of democracy. While many authors have examined the consequences of social capital, there is a pressing need to explore its sources. This collection brings together leading American and European scholars in the first comparative analysis of how social trust and other civic attitudes are generated. The contributors to this volume examine the generation of social capital from two directions: society-based approaches that emphasize voluntary associations, and institutional approaches that emphasize policy.
The Politics of Civil Society
Author: Powell, Fred
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447309499
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The politics of civil society is an original, thought provoking analysis which challenges one-dimensional neoliberal thinking about civil society, and seeks to rediscover its radical roots. The original edition shifted the scholarly debate onto the new ground, offering an accessible and compelling analysis of one of the central issues of our times. In the second, revised edition of this indispensable book, the author looks behind 'the mirror of power' to discover the reality of civil society - or 'Big Society', as it has become known. He finds not one but three forms of civil society: radical, liberal and conservative. In complex interplay between state and civil society, the author argues that citizens contend for power through civil society. This is both an age-long pursuit dating from antiquity and a contemporary democratic struggle between competing visions of modernity that determines the 'real' in politics, as experienced by the citizens. The book will have wide appeal to a broad cross-disciplinary audience.
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447309499
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The politics of civil society is an original, thought provoking analysis which challenges one-dimensional neoliberal thinking about civil society, and seeks to rediscover its radical roots. The original edition shifted the scholarly debate onto the new ground, offering an accessible and compelling analysis of one of the central issues of our times. In the second, revised edition of this indispensable book, the author looks behind 'the mirror of power' to discover the reality of civil society - or 'Big Society', as it has become known. He finds not one but three forms of civil society: radical, liberal and conservative. In complex interplay between state and civil society, the author argues that citizens contend for power through civil society. This is both an age-long pursuit dating from antiquity and a contemporary democratic struggle between competing visions of modernity that determines the 'real' in politics, as experienced by the citizens. The book will have wide appeal to a broad cross-disciplinary audience.
Civil Society and the Family
Author: Muddiman, Esther
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447355520
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The relationship between the family and civil society has always been complex, with the family often regarded as separate from, or even oppositional to, civil society. Taking a fresh empirical approach, Muddiman, Power and Taylor reveal how such separation underestimates the important role the family plays in civil society. Considering the impact of family events, dinner table debates, intergenerational transmission of virtues and the role of the mother, this enlightening book draws on survey data from 1000 young people, a sample of their parents and grandparents, and extended family interviews, to uncover how civil engagement, activism and political participation are inherited and fostered within the home.
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447355520
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The relationship between the family and civil society has always been complex, with the family often regarded as separate from, or even oppositional to, civil society. Taking a fresh empirical approach, Muddiman, Power and Taylor reveal how such separation underestimates the important role the family plays in civil society. Considering the impact of family events, dinner table debates, intergenerational transmission of virtues and the role of the mother, this enlightening book draws on survey data from 1000 young people, a sample of their parents and grandparents, and extended family interviews, to uncover how civil engagement, activism and political participation are inherited and fostered within the home.
Nation, Civil Society and Social Movements
Author: T K Oommen
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761998280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book is a collection of 12 essays on three interrelated themes of Nation, Civil Society and Social Movements organized in three parts each having four chapters.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761998280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book is a collection of 12 essays on three interrelated themes of Nation, Civil Society and Social Movements organized in three parts each having four chapters.
Civil Society and Social Reconstruction
Author: George F. McLean
Publisher: CRVP
ISBN: 9781565180864
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher: CRVP
ISBN: 9781565180864
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Capitalist Personality
Author: Christopher Swader
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 041589221X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book reveals the ambivalent repercussions of capitalist culture on interpersonal relationships in the post-communist world. Most observers tend to blame modern corruption, narcissism, and egoism in these new market societies on their communist pasts. This comparative analysis shows how the capitalist present is also squarely responsible.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 041589221X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book reveals the ambivalent repercussions of capitalist culture on interpersonal relationships in the post-communist world. Most observers tend to blame modern corruption, narcissism, and egoism in these new market societies on their communist pasts. This comparative analysis shows how the capitalist present is also squarely responsible.