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Bibliographic notes on the Concept of Civil Society

From: Daniel.S.SMITH@UIC.EDU

Somers-Margaret-R.
Citizenship and the place of the public sphere: law, community, and political culture in the transition to democracy.

Source: American Sociological Review. v. 58, Oct. '93, p. 587-620.
[Citizenship: Great-Britain: History. Civil-society: Great-Britain: History. Civil-rights: Great-Britain: History. Political-culture: Great-Britain: History].

Mirsky-Yehudah.
Democratic politics, democratic Culture.
(part of a symposium on democracy and American interests and values). Source: Orbis (Philadelphia, Pa.). v. 37, Fall '93, p. 567-80.
[Political-culture. Civil-society. Democracy. United-States: Foreign-relations.

Kumar-Krishan-1942-.
Civil society: an inquiry into the usefulness of an historical term.

Source: The British Journal of Sociology. v. 44, Sept. '93, p. 375-95 (Related item(s): Discussion. v44 p397-401 Sept. '93).
[ Civil-society: Europe. Political-philosophy.]

Young-Iris-Marion-1949-.
Social groups in associative democracy (comment on J. Cohen and J.

Rogers.
Source: Politics & Society. v. 20, Dec. '92, p. 529-34.
[Factionalism-Politics. Pressure-groups. Democracy. Civil-society.]

Cohen-Joshua.
Rogers-Joel-1952-. [Secondary associations and democratic governance.]
Source: Politics & Society. v. 20, Dec. '92, p. 393-472.

Alexander-Jeffrey-C.
The fragility of progress: an interpretation of the turn toward meaning [Sociology: Philosophy. Social-institutions. Civil-society. PS Eisenstadt-S-N-1923-.]

Dryzek-John-S-1953-.
The good society versus the state: freedom and necessity in political Source: The Journal of Politics. v. 54, May '92, p. 518-40.
[State-The. Civil-society. Political-philosophy. Political-science.]

Gellner-Ernest.
Civil society in historical context [part of a symposium on: Rethinking democracy].
Source: International Social Science Journal. v. 43, Aug. '91, p. 495-510.
[Civil-society. Democracy.]

Jacob-Margaret-C-1943-.
The Englightenment redefined: the formation of modern civil society.
Source: Social Research. v. 58, Summer '91, p. 475-95.
[Civil-society: Western-Europe: History. Enlightenment.] [Freemasons: History.]

ALEXANDER-JC.
CIVIL SOCIETY AND POLITICAL THEORY - COHEN,JL, ARATO
Source: CONTEMPORARY-SOCIOLOGY-A-JOURNAL-OF-REVIEWS. 1993, NOV, V22, N6. P797-803.

LYMAN-SM.
MARGINALIZING THE SELF - A STUDY OF CITIZENSHIP, COLOR, AND ETHNORACIAL IDENTITY IN AMERICAN SOCIETY

Source: SYMBOLIC-INTERACTION. 1993, WIN, V16, N4, P379-393.ISSN 0195-6086.
[From 1870 to 1952, naturalization legislation in the United States of America restricted citizenship to ''free white persons'' and ''persons of African nativity'' or ''African descent.'' Individuals categorized as ''members of the Mongolian race'' or as of neither ''free white'' nor ''African descent or nativity'' were excluded from membership in the American political community and designated ''aliens ineligible for citizenship in the United States.'' Examination of the appellate and Supreme Court adjudications of these matters reveals a juridical rhetoric that functioned to marginalize all those declared ineligible for civic status. Although the reasoning process employed by the courts was not dissimilar from that arising whenever individual disparate aggregates must be classified according to a limited set of categories, in the situations under study, it produced and legitimated an invidious hierarchy of peoples, a race-prejudicial sense of vertical group position, and a fundamental departure from the universalistic and individualistic claims that defended America as a thoroughgoing civil society].

BLUHM-H.
CIVIL SOCIETY AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY - GERMAN - WALZER,M.
Source: POLITISCHE-VIERTELJAHRESSCHRIFT. 1993, JUN, V34, N2, P347-348. ISSN 0032-3470.

WOLIN-R.
CIVIL SOCIETY AND POLITICAL THEORY - COHEN,JL, ARATO,A.
Source: THEORY-AND-SOCIETY. 1993, AUG, V22, N4, P575-585.ISSN 0304-2421.

ALEXANDER-JC. SMITH-P.
THE DISCOURSE OF AMERICAN CIVIL SOCIETY - A NEW PROPOSAL FOR CULTURAL STUDIES
Source: THEORY-AND-SOCIETY. 1993, APR, V22, N2, P151-207.

PAUPP-TE.
BUILDING THE 3RD RECONSTRUCTION SOCIETY - A PROPOSED UNITED-STATES CHARTER FOR SOCIOECONOMIC RIGHTS.

Source: URBAN-LEAGUE-REVIEW. 1993, V16, N1, P67-76.
[The principle of ''equal opportunity'' is a myth.]

WAKEMAN-F.
THE CIVIL SOCIETY AND PUBLIC SPHERE DEBATE - WESTERN REFLECTIONS ON CHINESE POLITICAL CULTURE.
Source: MODERN-CHINA. 1993, APR, V19, N2, P108-138.

GEYER-M.
RESISTANCE AS ONGOING PROJECT - VISIONS OF ORDER, OBLIGATIONS TO STRANGERS, STRUGGLES FOR CIVIL SOCIETY.
Source: JOURNAL-OF-MODERN-HISTORY. 1992, DEC, V64, S, PS 217S241.

LIPSCHUTZ-RD.
RECONSTRUCTING WORLD POLITICS - THE EMERGENCE OF GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY Source:MILLENNIUM-JOURNAL-OF-INTERNATIONAL-STUDIES. 1992, WIN, V21, N3. P389-420.

[World politics is being transformed by the emergence of non-institutionalised, transnational political networks, which are best described by the term 'global civil society'. This phenomenon has its origins in: (1) the growing role of liberal principles as an overarching set of global norms; (2) the state's declining competence and willingness to undertake welfare functions; and (3) the growing capabilities of elites, fostered by the mobilisation of societies during the Cold War. While not a replacement for the state system, global civil society may be seen in terms of a challenge to the Gramscian hegemony of statist world politics.]

CAIRNS-AC.
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE PEOPLE - REFLECTIONS ON CITIZENS AND CIVIL
Source: CANADIAN-JOURNAL-OF-POLITICAL-SCIENCE-REVUE-CANADIENNE-DE-SCIENCEPOLITIQUE. 1992, DEC, V25, N4, P785-785.

STREETEN-P.
LEWIS,W.ARTHUR DISTINGUISHED LECTURE WHATS LEFT OF WHATS LEFT - OR -WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A SOCIALIST TODAY.
Source: REVIEW-OF-BLACK-POLITICAL-ECONOMY. 1992, SUM, V21, N1, P5-18.

[After a few reminiscences about Arthur Lewis, several questions on what socialism is not about are raised. Neither public ownership, nor welfare services nor central planning are considered essential to it. The view that the distinction capitalism-socialism is obsolete is briefly discussed. It is argued that many important distinctions cut across the divide. The United States is held up as a socialist country. Changes in the socialist creed in the last century are noted. An alternative window of looking at the private-public sector distinction is discussed. And the essence of socialism as the democratization of political and civil society and private firms is advanced. A final plea for pedantic utopianism is made.]

HEINS-V.
AMBIVALENCES OF CIVIL SOCIETY.
Source: POLITISCHE-VIERTELJAHRESSCHRIFT. 1992, JUN, V33, N2, P235-242.

[A recent approach to democratic theory is centred on a new variety of the concept of civil society, which has been revived in order to maintain the practical intent of a critical theory of politics. The most important attainment of the new concept consists in identifying the internal associative capacities of liberal societies, which cannot be neither reduced to nor explained in terms of the functional needs of the dominant political and economic sub-systems. This revaluation of the autonomy of society is symbolized by the substitution of the term "civil" society for the old Hegelian "bourgeois" society. The essay discusses the characteristic ambivalence of the new fashionable term, which is vacillating between a neo-classical reconsideration of an anti-economic republicanism dallying with ancient models of democratic participation and a post-modernly radicalized version of the liberal civil society.]

MARTELL-L.
NEW IDEAS OF SOCIALISM.
Source: ECONOMY-AND-SOCIETY. 1992, MAY, V21, N2, P152-172.

[This paper discusses attempts to rethink socialism in the light of recent economic, social and political developments such as the rise of neo-liberalism, post-fordism, the demise of state socialism and globalization. It posits four new revisionist models of socialism-individualist socialism, market socialism, citizenship (or radical democratic) socialism and associational socialism. It examines each critically, arguing against the first and second models and in favour of the third and fourth. Associationalism, it is argued, provides a means for achieving the goals of citizenship or radical democratic socialism - a participatory pluralist and communitarian socialism. Associationalism, based on a strong role for associations in civil society and a co-operative polity, is outlined and advocated.

SAYER-D.
A NOTABLE ADMINISTRATION - ENGLISH STATE FORMATION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM.
Source: AMERICAN-JOURNAL-OF-SOCIOLOGY. 1992, MAR, V97, N5, P1382-1415.

[England is, according to both Marx and Weber, the classic ground of modern rational capitalism. Yet England's political history and institutions strikingly deviate from what Weberian or Marxist ideal-types of capitalist development might lead us to expect. This article argues that these deviations are important in explaining why England became the home of capitalism in the first place. Particular stress is put upon the earliness of England's formation as a national state, or the continuities of its major legal and political institutions, and what are often seen as their amateurish "irrationalities" in molding, over the very longue duree, a civil society in which capitalist economy was possible. If so, the pertinence of Marxist and Weberian ideal-types to a historical sociology of capitalism, whether in England or elsewhere, needs very seriously to be reconsidered.

GRIFFIN-SM.
BRINGING THE STATE INTO CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY - PUBLIC AUTHORITY AND THE CONSTITUTION.
Source: LAW-AND-SOCIAL-INQUIRY-JOURNAL-OF-THE-AMERICAN-BAR-FOUNDATION. 1991, FAL, V16, N4, P659-710.

[This article brings the state into constitutional theory by presenting a theory of the development of the American state from the late 19th century to the present. The focus of the theory is the ability of the national state to exercise sovereignty or public authority over civil society. The main thesis is that the Constitution did not establish a government with a level of public authority adequate to the requirements of a modern democratic state. The result was a mismatch between the demands of civil society and the competence of state institutions, causing a reorganization of the political institutions of civil society in the early 20th century and a crisis of public authority in the 1960s. The United States continues to experience the consequences of an imbalance between the state institutions established by an 18th-century constitution and 20th-century democratic politics.]

HAMILTON-CH.
THE IDEA OF CIVIL SOCIETY - SELIGMAN,AB. Source: AMERICAN-SCHOLAR. 1994, WIN, V63, N1, P140-142. ISSN 0003-0937.

GRAY-J.
FROM POST-COMMUNISM TO CIVIL SOCIETY - THE REEMERGENCE OF HISTORY AND THE DECLINE OF THE WESTERN MODEL.
Source: SOCIAL-PHILOSOPHY-&-POLICY. 1993, SUM, V10, N2, P26-50. ISSN 0265-0525.

GEYER-M.
RESISTANCE AS ONGOING PROJECT - VISIONS OF ORDER, OBLIGATIONS TO STRANGERS, STRUGGLES FOR CIVIL SOCIETY. Source: JOURNAL-OF-MODERN-HISTORY. 1992, DEC, V64, S, PS 217S241.

DELUE-SM.
NATIONALISM AND THE IDEA OF A LIBERAL CIVIL SOCIETY. Source: HISTORY-OF-EUROPEAN-IDEAS. 1992, AUG, V15, N4-6, P483-490.

PLANINC-Z.
FAMILY AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN HEGEL 'PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT'. Source: HISTORY-OF-POLITICAL-THOUGHT. 1991, SUM, V12, N2, P305-315.

Somers-Margaret-R.
Citizenship and the place of the public sphere: law, community, and political culture in the transition to democracy.

Source: American Sociological Review. v. 58, Oct. '93, p. 587-620. [Citizenship: Great-Britain: History. Civil-society: Great-Britain: History. Civil-rights: Great-Britain: History. Political-culture: Great-Britain: History.]

Barkey-Karen. Parikh-Sunita.
Comparative perspectives on the state. Source: Annual Review of Sociology. v. 17, '91, p. 523-49. [State-The. Civil-society.]

Weiner-Richard-R.
Retrieving civil society in a postmodern epoch (part of a special issue on: Postmodernism in the social sciences. Source: The Social Science Journal. v. 28 no3, '91, p. 307-23. [Civil-society. Critical-theory. Postmodernism. Social-sciences: Philosophy.]

Jacob-Margaret-C-1943-.
The Englightenment redefined: the formation of modern civil society.
Source: Social Research. v. 58, Summer '91, p. 475-95. [Civil-society: Western-Europe: History. Enlightenment. Freemasons: History.]

Shils-Edward.
The virtue of civil society.
Source: Government and Opposition. v. 26, Winter '91, p. 3-20. [Social-ethics. Civil-society. State-The.]

Walzer-Michael.
The civil society argument: the good life. Source: New Statesman & Society. v. 2, Oct. 6 '89, p. 28-31 (Related item(s):

Bell-Daniel.
"American exceptionalism" revisited: the role of civil society. Source: The Public Interest. v. no95, Spring '89, p. 38-56. [Political-philosophy. Civil-society: United-States. Political-stability. United-States: Social-history. Social-ethics.

Fox-Paula.
Civil society: moments of vividness and promise. Source: Dissent. v. 34, Fall '87, p. 593-4. [Civil-society.]

Pierson-Christopher.
New theories of state and civil society recent developments in post-Marxist analysis of the state. Source: Sociology. v. 18, Nov. '84, p. 563-71. [State-The. Civil-society. Marxism.]