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Definition
Bob Jessop:
" I define ‘civil society’ analytically as an ensemble of social relations characterized by the primacy of identities, interests, and values that cross-cut the logic of capital accumulation and other system logics — thus it includes ethnic, gender, regional, generational, and many other identities. These provide a site for contestation in the struggle for national-popular hegemony (as Gramsci indicates), a source of resistance to attempts at the colonization of civil society (or, in Habermasian terms, the lifeworld) by the logic(s) of one or another system (capital accumulation, statization, juridification, etc.), and the space for sociability outside specific system logics or even what post-modernists might call the free play of identities." (https://commonsblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/jessop-ntervew-on-sra-short.pdf)
Description
"The Inquiry’s definition of civil society includes: civil society as associational life, where people come together voluntarily for actions that lie beyond government or for-private-profit business, including voluntary and community organisations, trade unions, faith-based organisations, co-operatives and informal citizen groups; civil society as a ‘good’ society, grounded in values such as social justice, solidarity, mutuality and sustainability; and civil society as the public sphere, where people and organisations discuss common interests, deliberate solutions to problems, or find ways of reconciling differences." (from the Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society. Geoff Mulgan et al.)
Discussion
John Restakis (from ch. 6 of Humanizing the Economy):
"The term “civil society” has now entered – or more accurately re-entered – the vocabulary of common political discourse. It is a very ancient idea with roots in the political and moral philosophy of the ancient Greeks and the democratic society in which it was first conceived. The stress on the moral life that was a central part of Greek philosophy was always bound up in the concept of civic duty and the pursuit of the just society. For Plato, the ideal state was one in which people dedicate themselves to the common good, practice civic virtues of wisdom, courage, moderation and justice, and perform the social and occupational role to which they were best suited. Aristotle in turn, held that the “polis” – the city state - was an “association of associations” and the social reality that made political life possible. For these thinkers, there was no distinction between state and society and the idea of civil society as a political concept was profoundly influenced by the democratic institutions of Athens. It was made possible by the fact that individuals were not mere subjects of an absolute power. They were independent actors with the freedom to form horizontal bonds of mutual interest with others and to act in pursuit of this common interest. This was the essence of citizenship. Politics in the modern sense became possible. This link between civil society and democracy was to remain a defining feature of the term.
As the fortunes of democracy rose and fell over the ages, so too was affected the idea of civil society as a conceptual tool to explain the operations of society and ultimately, to change them. In the middle ages, with the rise of church and state absolutism, the classical notion of society as a civic body was suppressed as was political freedom. It was replaced by the authoritarian notion of society as the temporal extension of a sacred order that was eternal and unchangeable. Social relations were fixed. Politics was once again the exclusive prerogative of the powerful. The notion of citizenship was not to revive until the rise of civic humanism in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries when the idea of civil society was resurrected and absolutism was once again challenged. The rebirth of civil society accompanied the rise of republican cities like Florence and Sienna that in turn became centres of the Italian Renaissance. The idea then found its modern expression during the Enlightenment when philosophers and political reformers sought once again to limit the powers of state and church, in large part by defining society as the source of political legitimacy. It is no accident that the recent interest in civil society is also linked to resistance against authoritarianism - most dramatically in Eastern Europe before the fall of the Soviet block - and within the global justice movement against the rise of corporate power and the cooptation of the state by corporate interests.
In its narrowest modern sense, civil society refers to social organizations involved in the political process, for example political parties. But in its broadest and most accepted sense, civil society is the social impulse to free and democratic association, to the creation of community, and to the operations of social life, which includes politics. This is the sense of civil society that is used by writers such as Vaclav Havel. Unlike ancient times however, civil society is now distinguished from the state as it is from the operations of the private sector. Some writers also stress a distinction from the family as well.
For Havel and a long line of writers extending back to Aristotle, civil society remains the elementary fact of human existence. It is what makes human life possible. For Aristotle it was both the means and the end of human association as the pursuit of the good life, which is in essence a social life. And in this sense, it is the institutions that arise from civil society (the schools, the voluntary associations, the trade unions, the courts, the political parties, etc.) that provide the individual with the means to realize their own humanity and by so doing to perfect the whole of society in the process. The state is an outgrowth of this impulse.
It is fascinating to read Thomas Paine in this connection, particularly with reference to the raging debate surrounding the proper role of the state and the growing demands on the social economy to fulfill social and public services.
- “The great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It has its origins in the principles of society and the natural constitution of man. It existed prior to government, and would exist if the formality of government was abolished. The mutual dependence and reciprocal interest which man has upon man, and all the parts of civilized community upon each other, create that great chain of connection which holds it together. In fine, society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.” Alex De Toqueville, visiting America in the late seventeen hundreds, famously attributed the vitality of the young democracy to the richness and diversity of its associational life.
Within civil society, a huge portion of civic activities are carried out by organizations created to provide goods and services through collaboration, by people acting together to realize mutual interests. They constitute that sector which is composed of non-profit and voluntary organizations, service groups, cultural organizations such as choral societies, charities, trade unions, and co-operatives. This economic aspect within civil society has also been described as the third sector or the social economy. The value of the economic activity generated by the social economy in the western democracies is huge - and growing. As a percentage of total economic force for example, Canada’s non-profit workforce is the world’s second largest."
A Critique of the Accomodationist Usage of the Concept of Civil Society
by Ellen Meiksins Wood:
"However constructive its uses in defending human liberties against state oppression, or in marking out a terrain of social practices, institutions, and relations neglected by the “old” Marxist left, “civil society” is now in danger of becoming an alibi for capitalism.
Gramsci’s conception of “civil society” was unambiguously intended as a weapon against capitalism, not an accommodation to it. Despite the appeal to his authority which has become a staple of the “new revisionism,” the concept in its current usage no longer has this unequivocally anticapitalist intent. It has now acquired a whole new set of meanings and consequences, some very positive for the emancipatory projects of the Left, others far less so.
The two contrary impulses can be summed up in this way: the new concept of civil society signals that the Left has learned the lessons of liberalism about the dangers of state oppression, but we seem to be forgetting the lessons we once learned from the socialist tradition about the oppressions of civil society. On the one hand, the advocates of civil society are strengthening our defense of non-state institutions and relations against the power of the state; on the other hand, they are tending to weaken our resistance to the coercions of capitalism.
“Civil society” has given private property and its possessors a command over people and their daily lives, a power accountable to no one, which many an old tyrannical state would have envied. Those activities and experiences which fall outside the immediate command structure of the capitalist enterprise, or outside the political power of capital, are regulated by the dictates of the market, the necessities of competition and profitability.
Even when the market is not, as it commonly is in advanced capitalist societies, merely an instrument of power for giant conglomerates and multinational corporations, it is still a coercive force, capable of subjecting all human values, activities, and relationships to its imperatives. No ancient despot could have hoped to penetrate the personal lives of his subjects — their choices, preferences, and relationships — in the same comprehensive and minute detail, not only in the workplace but in every corner of their lives.
Coercion, in other words, has been not just a disorder of “civil society” but one of its constitutive principles. This historical reality tends to undermine the neat distinctions required by current theories which ask us to treat civil society as, at least in principle, the sphere of freedom and voluntary action, the antithesis of the irreducibly coercive principle which intrinsically belongs to the state.
These theories do, of course, acknowledge that civil society is not a realm of perfect freedom or democracy. It is, for example, marred by oppression in the family, in gender relations, in the workplace, by racist attitudes, homophobia, and so on. But these oppressions are treated as dysfunctions in civil society. In principle, coercion belongs to the state while civil society is where freedom is rooted, and human emancipation, according to these arguments, consists in the autonomy of civil society, its expansion and enrichment, its liberation from the state, and its protection by formal democracy.
What tends to disappear from view, again, is the relations of exploitation and domination which irreducibly constitute civil society, not just as some alien and correctible disorder but as its very essence, the particular structure of domination and coercion that is specific to capitalism as a systemic totality.
What is alarming about these theoretical developments is not that they violate some doctrinaire Marxist prejudice concerning the privileged status of class. Of course, the whole object of the exercise is to sideline class, to dissolve it in all-embracing categories which deny it any privileged status, or even any political relevance at all. But that is not the real problem.
The problem is that theories which do not differentiate — and, yes, “privilege,” if that means ascribing causal or explanatory priorities — among various social institutions and “identities” cannot deal critically with capitalism at all. The consequence of these procedures is to sweep the whole question under the rug." (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/01/ellen-meiksins-wood-gramsci-socialism-capitalism-intellectuals-postmodernism-identity/)
Book
* Book: Civil Society, 3rd Edition. By: Michael EdwardsPolity
URL = http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745679358
"Civil Society has become a standard work of reference for those who seek to understand the role of voluntary citizen action. Recent global unrest has shown the importance of social movements and street protests in world politics. However, as this lucid book shows, the power that people have to shape their societies is usually channeled through day-to-day participation in voluntary associations and communities: expressions of “normal” civic life beyond the headlines. This is the underlying story of civil society. This new edition explores issues that have developed rapidly in recent years, including the overlaps between civil society and the market in the form of social enterprises and “venture philanthropy,” and the increasing role of social media and information and communication technologies in civic interaction.
Different varieties of civil society in the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere are investigated in more detail, and case studies, data, and references have been updated throughout. Colleges, foundations and NGOs, policy-makers, journalists and commissions of inquiry Ð all have used Edwards’s book to understand and strengthen the vital role that civil society can play in deepening democracy, re-building community, and addressing inequality and injustice. This new edition will be required reading for anyone who is interested in creating a better world through voluntary citizen action." (http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745679358)
More Information
- Michel Bauwens: Towards a civil society-based ‘Common-ism’?
- Neal Gorenflo: Twenty Rules for Civil Networks
Reports and Books:
- Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society. Geoff Mulgan et al. Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society. Carnegie UK Trust, 2010
- Open Source for Civil Society Organizations: A decision making guide for civil society organizations
- Book: Reinventing Civil Society. David Green. 1993
Topics:
- Electronic Civil Disobedience
- Civil Regulation: rules created outside the statutory realm
- Civil Corporation, see the book: The Civil Corporation. By Simon Zadek.
- Civil Societarian
- Civil Constitutions: apparatuses which regulate the actions of the civil subjects who operate in a certain sector of activity
- Civil Humanism: a highly particular, and brief, period in Italian history, the first half of the fifteenth century
- Civil Society Organisations
- Civil Associations
- Civil Society-centered Socialism
- Civil Economy
https://communitywiki.org/wiki/CivilSociety
So far this page is a subset of the summary points from the page AnglospherePrimer.
Properties of civil societies:
- A civil society is composed of a network of groups of individuals.
- “strong networks of voluntary association”
- or, “Civil society refers to the arena of uncoerced collective action around shared interests, purposes and values.”1
- Examples of groups
- families
- community groups
- religious groups
- social groups
- business groups
- but the individual is important in hirself, not only as a member of a group
- Individuals may dissociate themselves from groups without prejudice
- Loyalty to the group does not supercede moral obligations to the rest of society, such as fair dealing
- Groups have no power over its members other than withdrawal of help or expulsion from the group.
- “individuals may choose to join associations marked by inherited ties, such as ethnic or religious organizations, but are not penalized for declining to join.”
- “The state deals with those individuals independently, rather than as members of [a] collective.”
- (somewhat?) related customs and values:
- individualism
- “rule of law”
- “honoring contracts and covenants”
- “the elevation of freedom to the first rank of political and cultural values.”
- Common Law principles
- trial by jury
- presumption of innocence
- “a man’s home is his castle”
- “a man’s word is his bond”
- relationships to market economies
- “Entrepreneurship in business uses and requires the same talents, and often the same motives, that go into starting a religious, nonprofit, or political organization. The society that can create entrepreneurial businesses tends to be the same society that creates the other forms of organizations as well – often the same individuals start several of each form at different stages in their lives.”
- “The market economy also requires a civil society with general acceptance of a common framework of laws, practices, and manners. Without a general acceptance of fair dealing, an agreement on what fair dealing means, and a system that can adjudicate disputes, a true market economy cannot exist.
- “Civic states” found with civil societies believe that authority derives from the assent of the governed, in a bottom-up manner: “authority begins at the local and community level and is gradually built upwards to deal with wider-scale issues”
- “Civic states rely on community assent and a feeling of participation in a local, regional, and national community”
- The authority of the state is upheld not by constant exercise of force, but by the willingness of citizens to comply.
- Provides citizens with an effective means of assent and dissent
- Examples of “civic state” groups in medieval England
- grand and petit jury systems
- the election of various aldermen and other local officials
- the quasi-official role of many civil institutions
- heritage of common law administered by an independent judiciary
- Selecting members of the House of Commons was one of many different mechanisms by which local communities gave or withheld their consent to the state.
Things which may appear to be civic socities or civic states but are not:
- ““economic states” in which loyalty is primarily pragmatic and based on expectation of benefits through cross-subsidization.”
- “People who define themselves primarily as members of collective entities, be they families, religions, racial or ethnic groups, political movements, or corporations, cannot form the basis of a civil society. “
- “Societies that permanently bind individuals under the discipline of inherited or assigned collectives (such as ethnic, racial, or religious groups)”
- societies in which “the state deals with everyone as members of ethnic, racial, or religious communities (such as the vilayet system of the Ottoman Empire)” are not civil societies
- AnglospherePrimer asserts that such societies “remain bogged down in ethnic, racial, or religious factionalism, nepotism, and economic systems such as the “crony capitalism” so prevalent in East Asia and Latin America.”
- A society may conduct democratic votes without being a civil society
Historic causes of civil societies:
- “Strong civil society has its roots in medieval Europe, as a result of the society being built of a mix of tribal, feudal, local, church, family, and state institutions, characterized by the lack of a single, overwhelming power that could impose its will. Gradually the different interests established negotiated relationships of power and influence, none of which involved full submission of one element to another. At first these institutions were for the most part neither free nor voluntary in nature. However, the multiplicity of institutions eventually permitted some liberty, and eventually many individuals to establish a substantial freedom and independence through astute negotiation.”
Discussion
BrianKerr
The paper you’re citing is weird! I don’t recall where I found this, but the London School of Econ / Poli Sci has a really great (e.g. baggage-free) working definition of the civil society, which I’ll quote here:
“Civil society refers to the arena of uncoerced collective action around shared interests, purposes and values. In theory, its institutional forms are distinct from those of the state, family and market, though in practice, the boundaries between state, civil society, family and market are often complex, blurred and negotiated. Civil society commonly embraces a diversity of spaces, actors and institutional forms, varying in their degree of formality, autonomy and power. Civil societies are often populated by organisations such as registered charities, development non-governmental organisations, community groups, women’s organisations, faith-based organisations, professional associations, trades unions, self-help groups, social movements, business associations, coalitions and advocacy groups.”
Also, I believe this is my first edit to CommunityWiki, please advise on any matters of style etc.
BayleShanks
Hi Brian, welcome! Thanks for the alternate defn.
I guess the alternative defn says all that is really agreed upon, but I think that all it boils down to is “Civil society refers to the arena of uncoerced collective action around shared interests, purposes and values.”. But I think AnglospherePrimer’s much more restrictive definition has some interesting points, such as its way of delineating the line between empowering groups and disempowering individuals and its discussion of civil society as a network of groups through which assent and power is transferred.
Relationship with OrganizedCulture
DavidCary
Is there a difference between this idea of an “OrganizedCulture” and the “Appropriate Civil Society” that the people at the "Appropriate Civil Society wiki"” are trying to build?
LionKimbro
I honestly cannot tell!
I was looking through there pages, and have a hard time making out just what “Appropriate Civil Society” is..!
We’ve talked about CivilSociety here before, and I’m sympathetic to that vision.
But when I think of OrganizedCulture, I think I mean something a bit more sweeping – something enabled by HyperSocial technology, that makes group formation and group identification vastly easier than it is right now.
Imagine if forming a corporation (a “body”, as it were) were as simple as snapping your fingers. And imagine that tons of people were doing it, and the EcosystemOfNetworks became flesh. That’s something of what I envision OrganizedCulture to be.
CivilSociety works in that vision, but does not require it.
And I have no idea what “Appropriate Civil Society” is. http://appropriatesoftware.net/wiki?AppropriateCivilSociety does not exist..!
Footnotes:
1. working definition of the civil society
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Society
Civil society is the "aggregate of non-governmental organizations and institutions that manifest interests and will of citizens".[1] Civil society includes the family and the private sphere, referred to as the "third sector" of society, distinct from government and business.[2] By other authors, "civil society" is used in the sense of 1) the aggregate of non-governmental organizations and institutions that manifest interests and will of citizens or 2) individuals and organizations in a society which are independent of the government.[1]
Sometimes the term civil society is used in the more general sense of "the elements such as freedom of speech, an independent judiciary, etc, that make up a democratic society" (Collins English Dictionary).[3] Especially in the discussions among thinkers of Eastern and Central Europe, civil society is seen also as a concept of civic values. One widely known representative of this concept is the Polish former dissident Adam Michnik.
Institutions composing civil society may be for-profit or not-for-profit.[4]
Links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Civil_society
http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Category:Civil_Society
Introduction
- The basic orientation of p2p theory towards societal reform: transforming civil society, the private and the state
- To the Finland Station: the political approach of P2P Theory
- Michel Bauwens & Vasilis Kostakis
- Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy, 2014, Palgrave Macmillan: See especially Part Three.
- Civil Power and the Partner State. By John Restakis. Draft text of a keynote address to the 2nd Good Economy conference in Zagreb, Croatia. 18 March 2015.
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Scaled-Up Welfare Systems are rooted in grassroots community experimentation
Ted Howard:
"Solutions start where all fundamental change comes from—which is in communities and from the bottom up. This has been the case with large order change in both the UK and in my own country, the United States. Back home, we call it the laboratories of democracy. As the Great Depression took hold in America in 1929, the levels of pain across the country grew. But the ideology of the then federal government was that the government should do nothing to address the growing depression, that the market would correct itself. And so, in community after community people took history into their own hands and began to address their problems themselves. New approaches were devised that could eventually be lifted up and scaled. America’s primary social safety net, the Social Security System, began in small Alaska and California communities as people grappled with their challenges. When the politics changed nationally, when the Roosevelt administration came into power, and the New Deal began, these small models were lifted up into a comprehensive system of national support. Here in Britain there is a similar experience. When Bevan launched the NHS in 1948, he drew his inspiration from the Tredegar Medical Aid Society, a community based model in South Wales that began in 1890. This small Welsh experiment was scaled up into one of the great health systems of the world." (https://democracycollaborative.org/content/democracy-collaborative-joins-jeremy-corbyns-new-community-wealth-building-unit-advisors)
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