Identifying a free society : conditions and indicators / / by Milan Zafirovski

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910511896103321
• Autore: Zafirovski Milan <1958->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boston : , : Brill, , [2017]
• ISBN: 90-04-34733-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (474 pages) : illustrations, tables
• Collana: Studies in critical social sciences ; ; 107
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetti: Social history - 21st century; Liberalism; Culture; Democracy; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Modern Free Society -- The Political Condition and Indicator of Modern Free Society—Democracy -- Sources and Grounds for Democracy Estimates -- The Economic Condition and Indicator of Modern Free Society—A Free Economy -- Sources and Grounds for Free Economy Estimates -- The Cultural Condition and Indicator of Modern Free Society—A Free Culture -- Sources and Grounds for Free Culture Estimates -- The Civic Condition and Indicator of Modern Free Society—A Free Civil Society -- Sources and Grounds for Free Civil Society Estimates -- Summary and Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Identifying a Free Society Milan Zafirovski offers a holistic sociological approach to modern free society as a total social system. The book examines the main conditions and indicators of modern free society such as democracy, a free economy, a free culture, and a free civil society, hence political, economic, cultural, and individual liberty entwined with equality and justice. It provides specific and aggregate free-society estimates for Western and related societies based on a variety of objective rankings, data, and reports. On the basis of these estimates, the book identifies liberal societies as the freest as a whole, and their anti-liberal opposites as the most unfree.