05341nam 2200673Ia 450 991082769440332120240410131403.09780198036814 (Electronic Book)(CKB)2560000000301351(EBL)281262(OCoLC)71316937(SSID)ssj0000122774(PQKBManifestationID)11157691(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122774(PQKBWorkID)10131667(PQKB)10945758(StDuBDS)EDZ0000076854(MiAaPQ)EBC281262(Au-PeEL)EBL281262(CaPaEBR)ebr10160579(CaONFJC)MIL83850(MiAaPQ)EBC7038936(EXLCZ)99256000000030135120060516d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe civil sphere /Jeffrey C. Alexander1st ed.New York Oxford University Press20061 online resource (814 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780195162509 (Hardback) 9780195369304 (Paperback) Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Introduction; PART I: CIVIL SOCIETY IN SOCIAL THEORY; 1 Possibilities of Justice; 2 Real Civil Societies: Dilemmas of Institutionalization; Civil Society I; Civil Society II; Return to Civil Society I?; Toward Civil Society III; 3 Bringing Democracy Back In: Realism, Morality, Solidarity; Utopianism: The Fallacies of Twentieth-Century Evolutionism; Realism: The Tradition of Thrasymachus; Morality and Solidarity; Complexity and Community; Cultural Codes and Democratic Communication; PART II: STRUCTURES AND DYNAMICS OF THE CIVIL SPHERE; 4 Discourses: Liberty and RepressionPure and Impure in Civil DiscourseThe Binary Structures of Motives; The Binary Structures of Relationships; The Binary Structures of Institutions; Civil Narratives of Good and Evil; Everyday Essentialism; The Conflict over Representation; 5 Communicative Institutions: Public Opinion, Mass Media, Polls, Associations; The Public and Its Opinion; The Mass Media; Public Opinion Polls; Civil Associations; 6 Regulative Institutions (1): Voting, Parties, Office; Civil Power: A New Approach to Democratic Politics; Revisiting Thrasymachus: The Instrumental Science of PoliticsConstructing and Destructing Civil Power (1): The Right to Vote and DisenfranchisementConstructing and Destructing Civil Power (2): Parties, Partisanship, and Election Campaigns; Civil Power in the State: Office as Regulating Institution; 7 Regulative Institutions (2): The Civil Force of Law; The Democratic Possibilities of Law; Bracketing and Rediscovering the Civil Sphere: The Warring Schools of Jurisprudence; The Civil Morality of Law; Constitutions as Civil Regulation; The Civil Life of Ordinary Law; Legalizing Social Exclusion: The Antidemocratic Face of Law8 Contradictions: Uncivilizing Pressures and Civil RepairSpace: The Geography of Civil Society; Time: Civil Society as Historical Sedimentation; Function: The Destruction of Boundary Relations and Their Repair; Forms of Boundary Relations: Input, Intrusion, and Civil Repair; PART III: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE CIVIL SPHERE; 9 Social Movements as Civil Translations; The Classical Model; The Social Science of Social Movements (1): Secularizing the Classical Model; The Social Science of Social Movements (2): Inverting the Classical ModelThe Social Science of Social Movements (3): Updating the Classical ModelDisplacing the Classical Model: Rehistoricizing the Cultural and Institutional Context of Social Movements; Social Movements as Translations of Civil Societies; 10 Gender and Civil Repair: The Long and Winding Road through M/otherhood; Justifying Gender Domination: Relations between the Intimate and Civil Spheres; Women's Difference as Facilitating Input; Women's Difference as Destructive Intrusion; Gender Universalism and Civil Repair; The Compromise Formation of Public M/otherhood; Public Stage and Civil SphereUniversalism versus Difference: Feminist Fortunes in the Twentieth CenturyHow do real individuals live together in real societies in the real world? Jeffrey Alexander's masterful work, ""The Civil Sphere"", addresses this central paradox of modern life. Feelings for others - the solidarity that is ignored or underplayed by theories of power or self-interest - are at the heart of this novel inquiry into the meeting place between normative theories of what we think we should do and empirical studies of who we actually are. A grand and sweeping statement, ""The Civil Sphere"" is a major contribution to our thinking about the real, but ideal world in which we all resideCivil societyCultural pluralismSocial interactionCivil society.Cultural pluralism.Social interaction.300Alexander Jeffrey C.1947-39909MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827694403321The civil sphere4061102UNINA