Civil Society: Challenging Western Models

by Elizabeth Dunn

Book Overview

Between kinship ties on the one hand and the state on the other, human beings experience a diversity of social relationships and groupings which in modern western thought have come to be gathered under the label 'civil society'. A liberal-individualist model of civil society has become fashionable in recent years, but what can such a term mean in the late twentieth century?
Civil Society argues that civil society should not be studied as a separate,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415132193
• ISBN13: 9780415132190
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"