Description
Product ID: | 9780367635961 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Routledge Advances in Sociology |
Title: | Civil Society: Between Concepts and Empirical Grounds |
Authors: | Author: Lars Bo Kaspersen, Liv Egholm |
Page Count: | 218 |
Subjects: | Social and political philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Sociology, Politics and government, Political science and theory, Sociology, Politics & government, Political science & theory |
Description: | Select Guide Rating This book reveals the contextual nature of the process through which civil society develops, presenting studies that analyse the manner in which civil society has been practised and transformed over time, and developing a novel theoretical framework to shed new light on familiar questions pertaining to its boundaries and spaces of action. Examining the historical and social trajectories involved in the continuous development of civil society, this volume reveals the contextual nature of the process. Through empirical studies focusing primarily on Denmark and covering the period from 1849 to the present day, it analyses the manner in which civil society has been practised and transformed over time. Presenting a new theoretical framework informed by a relational and processual perspective, the book sheds new light on familiar questions pertaining to civil society, the production of its boundaries and spaces of action, and the means by which these spaces can become causal factors. A fresh intervention in the study of a concept that has been central in defining ideas of solidarity and the common good, and to which researchers and politicians look for solutions to the great challenges of our time, Civil Society: Between Concepts and Empirical Grounds will appeal to scholars of sociology, politics, history and philosophy with interests in civil society. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-05-30 |