Relationship between State and Civil Society: Theoretical Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-74
Author(s):  
Abdou Barrow
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Social World ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Class ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

Relationship between state and civil society has been of great interest in the field of social sciences especially in the field of sociology and political science. There have been several theorist that tries to look into this relationship. The aim of this paper is to review the theoretical approaches of Marxist, Elites, and Neo-Consensualist on the relations between state and civil society in nowadays societies. Research are based on literature studies, on conflict perspectives in sociology. These theories are very prominent when talking about state-civil society relationship in sociology. Marxist looks the relationship between the two as conflictual, meaning dominant civil society use the state as an instrument in exploiting the weak economic class. Elites argue the relationship differently from that of Marxist and liberals, as for them, state is run by few individuals at the expense of the mass. In the eye of Neo-Consensualist is entirely a different story, as that of Parson view certain prospectin the social world of constituting the society that is; norms, and values. As for Bellah he sought religion as a mechanism in the spirit of acculturating a kind of doctrine in a sense that, state and citizens go bye. Result for this theoretical views is elites show the relationship different from the Marxist and liberals, as for them the state is run by few individuals at the expense of the mass. This people are a minority group that has influence through economically, socially and the like but in short they have potentials in making things happen. This minority group the called them the elite as the mas they called the ruled.

Local Institutions at the Crossroads of Environmental Regionalism in Southeast Asia: State-Civil Society Interplays and Tensions

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-54
Author(s):  
Antonio P. Contreras
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
International Interactions ◽  
Civil Societies

This paper inquires into the implications of the different discursive imaginations on civil societies and the state from the perspective of the social sciences, particularly political science and international relations. It focuses on some interfaces and tensions that exist between civil society on one hand, and the state and its bureaucratic instrumentalities on the other, particularly in the domain of environment and natural resources governance in the context of new regionalisms and of alternative concepts of human security. There is now a new context for regionalism in Southeast Asia, not only among state structures, such as the ASEAN and the various Mekong bodies, but also among local civil societies coming from the region. It is in this context that issues confronting local communities are given a new sphere for interaction, as well as a new platform for engaging state structures and processes. This paper illustrates how dynamic are the possibilities for non-state domains for transnational interactions, particularly in the context of the emerging environmental regionalism. This occurs despite the dominance of neo-realist political theorizing, and the state-centric nature of international interactions.

scholarly journals Space and War, Constants and Change from a Historical Perspective

Geografie ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 117 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Kofroň
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
The Relationship

This article highlights an understudied phenomenon: the relationship between space and war. War has been waged in space and over space; hence this relationship constitutes an important, yet, among geographers, rather neglected issue. The broader significance of war is evident in the fact that war has formed important features of the modern political and social world. The relationship between war and space is presented at two main levels, tactical and strategic. It is argued that despite many changes in relations between war and space, physical space remains a key issue in any war and, as such, geographers should examine it. Such an examination cannot be limited to critical approaches or geographers will fall short in competition with scholars from other fields of the social sciences.

Networks, Organizations, Institutions:  An Interview with Walter W. Powell, Stanford University

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmut K. Anheier ◽  
Walter W. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Organizational Forms ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Organizational Sociology ◽  
New Organizational Forms ◽  
The Social ◽  
Network Organizations ◽  
Society Research

In this interview, Walter W. Powell and Helmut K. Anheier review the evolution of organizational sociology and institutionalism over the last thirty years, including the formation of new organizational forms such as network organizations. They also touch upon nonprofit and civil society research, and discuss the state of sociology and the social sciences more generally.

scholarly journals Reconstructing the Notion of Nationalism: Conversations About Women and Nationalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Iqraa Runi Aprilia ◽  
Ruth Indiah Rahayu
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
The Social ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

<p>Contemporary feminists in Indonesia do not yet have questions about nationalism, since the conversation about nationalism has been considered final at the beginning of Indonesian independence. In fact, in terms of contemporary analysis, women have problems with nationalism, when the definition of nationalism is dominated by the study of political science that is male-view biased. By tracing history to contemporary time, the relationship between women and nationalism is dominated by patriarchal interests for the mobilization of power, even if women have an independent political interest. That is why political interests of women are situated marginally in nationalism. But if we use the perspective of the social sciences, as feminist theories, then the notion of nationalism is broader than that of women and the state. We are still less productive in abstracting the relationship between women and citizens in nationalism, while it is a daily practice of women’s struggles both personally and organically. Women have proven to be an active agency to become citizens beyond the mobilization of the state. This paper seeks to arouse feminist questions about nationalism, in order to reveal the role of women who are hidden in nationalism.  </p>

Aesthetics on the Edge

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic McIver Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Conceptual Art ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Brain Sciences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Music Literature ◽  
The Relationship

Recent years have seen an explosion of research on the biological, neural, and psychological foundations of artistic and aesthetic phenomena, which had previously been the province of the social sciences and the humanities. Meanwhile, it is a boom time for meta-philosophy, many new methods have been adopted in aesthetics, and philosophers are tackling the relationship between empirical and theoretical approaches to aesthetics. These eleven essays propose a methodology especially suited to aesthetics, where problems in philosophy are addressed principally by examining how aesthetic phenomena are understood in the human sciences. Since the human sciences include much of the humanities as well as the social, behavioural, and brain sciences, the methodology promises to integrate arts research across the academy. The volume opens with four essays outlining the methodology and its potential. Subsequent essays put the methodology to work, shedding light on the perceptual and social-pragmatic capacities that are implicated in responding to works of art, especially images, but also music, literature, and conceptual art.

scholarly journals Towards a Postcolonial Critical Realism

2021 ◽  
pp. 089692052110039
Author(s):  
Meghan Tinsley
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Social ◽  
Material Reality ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
Ontological Framework ◽  
The Relationship

This article proposes postcolonial critical realism (PCR) as an ontological framework that explains the structuring relationship between racialized, colonial discourses and the social world. Beginning with the case study of the global climate crisis, it considers how scholars and activists have made sense of the present crisis, and how their discourses reflect and reproduce the climate crisis at large. To theorize the relationship between racialized, power-laden discourses and material reality, it derives five tenets of PCR: first, colonial discourses underlie, and interact with, material structures; second, coloniality is global and made visible through differential events and experiences; third, subaltern lived experiences reveal the nature of reality at large; fourth, coloniality is power-laden, sticky, and often invisible; and finally, decolonization must target all three domains of the social world and their interactions. The article concludes by considering how this framework might enrich anticolonial thought in the social sciences, as well as social movements.

Uses and Abuses of “State and Civil Society” in Contemporary Turkey

1998 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yael Navaro-Yashin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Social Scientific

The categories of “state” and “civil society” have too often been used as oppositional terms in the social sciences and in public discourse. This article aims to problematize the concepts of “state” and “civil society” when perceived as separate and distinct entities in the discourses of social scientists as well as of members of contemporary social movements in Turkey. Rather than readily using state and society as analytical categories referring to essential domains of sociality, the purpose is to transform these very categories into objects of ethnographic study. There has been a proliferation of discourse on “the state” and “the civil society” in Turkey in the 1980s and 1990s. This article emerges out of an observation of the peculiar coalescence of social scientific and public usages of these terms in this period. It aims to radically relativize and to historically contextualize these terms through a close ethnographic study of the various political domains in which they have been discursively employed.

scholarly journals Informal networks and interstitial arenas of power in the making of civil society law in Serbia

Sociologija ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 571-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Mikus
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Legal Reforms ◽  
Civil Society Participation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Stable Network ◽  
Law Making

This paper adopts an anthropological perspective on law to examine the social processes surrounding the making of a set of recent civil society laws in Serbia. In line with the dominant liberal assumptions about civil society involvement as a way of making policy- and law-making more representative and democratic, there has been significant civil society participation in these legal reforms. Their stated aim was to bring greater ?efficiency? and ?transparency? to the activities of civil society and its relationships with the state. They were a part of the greatly intensified law-making activity in Serbia that reflects an ideology of legalism linked to the global neoliberal turn to depoliticised ?governance.? My analysis reveals that these reforms contradicted their own objectives since they were consistently dominated by a small and relatively stable network of organisations and individuals connected by informal relationships. It also shows that, through their protracted domination over the making of civil society law, these actors created a new political arena in the interstices of the state and civil society in which they pursued their own political and ideological agendas. These findings challenge the assumptions about the relationship between civil society participation and democratisation as well as the ideology of legalism.

scholarly journals Social Sciences and the Cultural Sector in England

Museum Worlds ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-52
Author(s):  
Sara Selwood
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conflicting Interests ◽  
Cultural Sector ◽  
The Relationship

Drawing on a literature review of over two hundred items, this commentary describes what drove the English cultural sector’s interest in the social sciences from the 1980s, and the social sciences’ interest in the cultural sector. The social sciences offered the cultural sector the means to evidence and advocate its assertions of social and economic impact in line with government requirements. Their economic valuations and sociological analyses of its patterns of employment were both written on commission and independently. But despite the potential for complementary collaborations, the relationship between the social sciences and the cultural sector has been subject to the conflicting interests of the various constituencies involved. Various economists have commented on the costs of financial value being held in higher regard than human value. Perhaps this will mark a moment when cultural policy and those activities that the state-supports will become more unequivocally celebrated for adding value to society.

Interview: Claus Offe and Helmut Anheier

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claus Offe ◽  
Helmut K. Anheier
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Relationship

In this interview, Claus Offe and Helmut Anheier examine the state of Eastern Europe 30 years after the fall of communism, explore the relationship between capitalism and democracy, and discuss what the social sciences mean today. They talk about the stresses liberalism is currently experiencing, current political developments in the US and UK, and the current relevance the fields of sociology and economics.

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