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ature however it could be maintained at the sub optimal level in the absence of a sufficient system brown 2001 73 from that major concern people gathered together to sign a contract and constituted a common public authority nevertheless locke held that the consolidation of political power can be turned into autocracy if it is not brought under reliable restrictions kaviraj 2001 291 therefore locke set forth two treaties on government with reciprocal obligations in the first treaty people submit themselves to the common public authority this authority has the power to enact and maintain laws the second treaty contains the limitations of authority i e the state has no power to threaten the basic rights of human beings as far as locke was concerned the basic rights of human beings are the preservation of life liberty and property moreover he held that the state must operate within the bounds of civil and natural laws both hobbes and locke had set forth a system in which peaceful coexistence among human beings could be ensured through social pacts or contracts they considered civil society as a community that maintained civil life the realm where civic virtues and rights were derived from natural laws however they did not hold that civil society was a separate realm from the state rather they underlined the co existence of the state and civil society the systematic approaches of hobbes and locke in their analysis of social relations were largely influenced by the experiences in their period their attempts to explain human nature natural laws the social contract and the formation of government had challenged the divine right theory in contrast to divine right hobbes and locke claimed that humans can design their political order this idea had a great impact on the thinkers in the enlightenment period the enlightenment thinkers argued that human beings are rational and can shape their destiny hence no need of an absolute authority to control them both jean jacques rousseau a critic of civil society and immanuel kant argued that people are peace lovers and that wars are the creation of absolute regimes burchill 2001 33 as far as kant was concerned this system was effective to guard against the domination of a single interest and check the tyranny of the majority alagappa 2004 30 modern history edit part of a series on communitarianism principles civil society common good community consensus decision making diversity political particularism positive rights social capital solidarity social responsibility value pluralism workplace democracy intellectuals aristotle barber barzilai bellah benhabib benoist blond elshtain etzioni galston hauerwas hegel kuczewski macintyre marglin adán preve putnam rousseau reich sandel taylor tönnies walzer watson related topics catholic social teaching christian democracy libertarian socialism progressivism radical centrism republicanism social democracy socialism utopian socialism politics portal v t e g w f hegel 61 completely changed the meaning of civil society giving rise to a modern liberal understanding of it as a form of non political society as opposed to institutions of modern nation state 13 while in classical republicanism civil society where synonymous with political society hegel distinguished political state and civil society what was followed by tocqueville s distinction between civil and political societies and associations 13 repeated by marx and tönnies unlike his predecessors hegel considered civil society german bürgerliche gesellschaft as a separate realm a system of needs that is the stage of difference which intervenes between the family and the state 62 civil society is the realm of economic relationships as it exists in the modern industrial capitalist society 63 for it had emerged at the particular period of capitalism and served its interests individual rights and private property 64 hence he used the german term bürgerliche gesellschaft to denote civil society as civilian society a sphere regulated by the civil code this new way of thinking about civil society was followed by alexis de tocqueville and karl marx as well 13 for hegel civil society manifested contradictory forces being the realm of capitalist interests there is a possibility of conflicts and inequalities within it ex mental and physical aptitude talents and financial circumstances he argued that these inequalities influence the choices that members are able to make in relation to the type of work they will do the diverse positions in civil society fall into three estates the substantial estate agriculture the formal estate trade and industry and the universal estate civil society 65 a man is able to choose his estate though his choice is limited by the aforementioned inequalities however hegel argues that these inequalities enable all estates in civil society to be filled which leads to a more efficient system on the whole karl marx followed the hegelian way of using the concept of civil society for marx the emergence of the modern state created a realm of civil society that reduced society to private interests competing against each other political society was autonomized into the state which was in turn ruled by the bourgeois class consider also that suffrage only belonged then to propertied men marx in his early writings anticipated the abolition of the separation between state and civil society and looked forward to the reunification of private and public political realms colletti 1975 hence marx rejected the positive role of state put forth by hegel marx argued that the state cannot be a neutral problem solver rather he depicted the state as the defender of the interests of the bourgeoisie he considered the state to be the executive arm of the bourgeoisie which would wither away once the working class took democratic control of society 66 the above view about civil society was criticised by antonio gramsci edwards 2004 10 departing somewhat from marx gramsci did not consider civil society as a realm of private and alienated relationships rather gramsci viewed civil society as the vehicle for bourgeois hegemony when it just represents a particular class he underlined the crucial role of civil society as the contributor of the cultural and ideological capital required for the survival of the hegemony of capitalism 67 rather than posing it as a problem as in earlier marxist conceptions gramsci viewed civil society as the site for problem solving misunderstanding gramsci the new left assigned civil society a key role in defending people against the state and the market and in asserting the democratic will to influence the state 68 at the same time neo liberal thinkers consider civil society as a site for struggle to subvert communist and authoritarian regimes 69 thus the term civil society occupies an important place in the political discourses of the new left and neo liberals post modern history edit after decades of forbidden national days on the 15th of march 1989 the communist regime of hungary allowed people to celebrate the 1956 revolution parallel with the state celebration at the national museum independent organisations called the public to gather at the statue of petőfi sándor it is commonly believed by whom that the post modern way of understanding civil society was first developed by political opposition in the former soviet bloc east european countries in the 1980s however research shows that communist propaganda had the most important influence on the development and popularization of the idea instead in an effort to legitimize neoliberal transformation in 1989 11 according to theory of restructurization of welfare systems a new way of using the concept of civil society became a neoliberal ideology legitimizing development of the third sector as a substitute for the welfare state the recent development of the third sector is a result of this welfare systems restructuring rather than of democratization 11 from that time stems a political practice of using the idea of civil society instead of political society henceforth postmodern usage of the idea of civil society became divided into two main ones as political society and as the third sector apart from plethora of definitions 11 the washington consensus of the 1990s which involved conditioned loans by the world bank and imf to debt laden developing states also created pressures for states in poorer countries to shrink 51 this in turn led to practical changes for civil society that went on to influence the theoretical debate initially the new conditionality led to an even greater emphasis on civil society as a panacea replacing the state s service provision and social care 51 hulme and edwards suggested that it was now seen as the magic bullet by the end of the 1990s civil society was seen less as a panacea amid the growth of the anti globalization movement and the transition of many countries to democracy instead civil society was increasingly called on to justify its legitimacy and democratic credentials this led to the creation by the un of a high level panel on civil society 70 however in the 1990s with the emergence of the nongovernmental organizations and the new social movements nsms on a global scale civil society as a third sector became treated as a key terrain of strategic action to construct an alternative social and world order post modern civil society theory has now largely returned to a more neutral stance but with marked differences between the study of the phenomena in richer societies and writing on civil society in developing states when discussing civil society in developing countries sociologist bojan baća distinguishes three dominant approaches functionalist civil society as a democratizing force normativist civil society as a civilized society and structuralist civil society as the civic sector arguing that these frameworks can be reductive and may obscure the empirical realities of actually existing civil societies particularly outside western contexts he instead conceptualizes civil society as a historically and geographically contingent arrangement of practices relations and processes embedded in specific local and regional settings 71 link to the public sphere edit jürgen habermas said that the public sphere encourages rational will formation it is a sphere of rational and democratic social interaction 72 habermas analyzes civil society as a sphere of commodity exchange and social labor and public sphere as a part of political realm habermas argues that even though society was representative of capitalist society there are some institutions that were part of political society transformations in economy brought transformations to the public sphere though these transformations happen a civil society develops into political society when it emerges as non economic and has a populous aspect and when the state is not represented by just one political party there needs to be a locus of authority and this is where society can begin to challenge authority jillian schwedler points out that civil society emerges with the resurrection of the public sphere when individuals and groups begin to challenge boundaries of permissible behaviour for example by speaking out against the regime or demanding a government response to social needs civil society begins to take shape 73 in recent years with the emergence of new social actors academic references on the subject of civil society such as jean l cohen andrew arato and simone chambers have questioned whether civil society is always positive 74 75 institutions edit this section may contain original research please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations statements consisting only of original research should be removed may 2016 learn how and when to remove this message civil society organizations also known as civic organizations include among others academia activist groups charities clubs sports social etc community foundations community organizations consumer organizations cooperatives foundations news media non governmental organizations ngos non profit organizations npos private voluntary organizations pvos professional associations religious organizations social enterprises social movement organizations statutory corporations support groups trade unions voluntary associations see also edit portal politics activism anarchism associationalism civic engagement civics civic nationalism civic space civic virtue civil affairs civil and political rights civil inattention civil liberties civil religion civil society and indigenous peoples mechanism communitarianism communism constitutional economics coordination good cultural hegemony democracy foucault habermas debate global civics global governance human rights judiciary mass society non state actor open society political science public interest litigation rule of law rule according to higher law social capital social economy social entrepreneurship social innovation sociology service organization power voluntary sector yearbook of international organizations civil society scholars edit jeffrey c alexander helmut anheier andrew arato phillip blond benjamin barber daniel bell robert n bellah walden bello jean l cohen michael edwards jean bethke elshtain amitai etzioni francis fukuyama ernest gellner susan george jürgen habermas peter dobkin hall mary kaldor barry dean karl john keane david korten john w meyer frank moulaert michael oakeshott michael o neill elinor ostrom robert d putnam michael sandel charles taylor lori wallach khurram zaki references edit citations edit what is civil society civilsoc org archived 2 may 2009 at the wayback machine civil society define civil society at dictionary com dictionary com archived from the original on 25 december 2014 retrieved 24 january 2012 civil society definition and meaning collins english dictionary www collinsdictionary com 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