Kumar, Kanta (1993) Civil-Society - An Inquiry Into The Usefulness Of An Historical Term. British Journal of Sociology, 44 (3). pp. 375-395. ISSN 0007-1315. (doi:10.2307/591808) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:22168)
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Abstract
Civil society has been on the lips of many theoreticians of the 1989 revolutions, in the West as well as in East Central Europe. The hope is that civil society, as a concept and a programme, will help post-communist societies out of their current political predicament. How reasonable a hope is this? How useful is the concept of civil society at the present time; either in the East or the West? This paper first considers the historical career of the concept. It then goes on to examine its fruitfulness in the current conditions of western and East European society.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| DOI/Identification number: | 10.2307/591808 |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences |
| Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research |
| Depositing User: | M. Nasiriavanaki |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jul 2009 14:04 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 09 Mar 2023 11:31 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/22168 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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