Civil Society Characteristics

Tolerance allows for discussion to occur in a democratic civil society, without this discussion one would never be able to paint a picture of what the common good for all people actually is, one would only be able to tell others what their own common good is. By enabling discussions of individual’s common goods, tolerance creates a structure for people getting together to solve problems in society which manifests in the idea of associations. Tolerance and the common good are both part of the three main tenets of civil society, the other one being individual rights. They work together and build upon one another to hold up our civil society, if any of the three tenets were to suddenly fall apart or not exist, civil society would cease to function. In addition to being interdependent on one another to form civil society, the terms also could not exist without the other.

Balibar differs from Ranciere in this sense. Ranciere examines the political which refers to an area which politics could occur. On the contrary, Balibar rejects the idea that opens a way to politics. Instead of this, he examines the universality that we live in and finds out that universality is not inclined to establish the community which depends on discrimination or being under the rule of some transcendental authority. 1.

So, we should keep the options more open for elections. Also, each state has two senators to be chosen by the state legislature, not voters. Also, popular among most states rights proponents is dual federalism. Dual Federalism is an interpretation of federalism in which states and the national government have separate jurisdictions and responsibilities. It suggests that, much like in a layer cake, there are distinct; no overlapping areas of responsibility for national government and state government and each level of government is sovereign.

However, in a society like the present, in which predominate rights and obligations, where cultural diversity prevails and we are all different, it is not possible to consider such situations. Therefore, my position is that subcultures can live and develop normally in conjunction with the dominant culture, without being necessary to sacrifice that identify the subcultures as a group. There are many reasons why we argue that both minority subcultures as the majority culture can coexist without compromising each other. As first reason we emphasize that the Subcultures may, serve as mechanisms to contain conflicting priorities that may otherwise be widespread and potentially more difficult to manage at the organizational level (Chatman & Boisnier, 2002). Thus, the majority culture is kept safe from the problems that generate different thoughts

In every society there is a large number of rules and laws that people operate under. For example, in Kurt Vonnegut’s short story “Harrison Bergeron”, the idea of equality is understood in a very literal manner. The way the government handles making everyone equal shows that they do not have a valid understanding of equality. They feel as if nobody should be better than the next person and everyone should literally be the exact same. They issue out handicaps to anyone with any understanding attributes to make everyone equal.

Latent is defined as “not yet developed or manifest”, which I would certainly apply to portions of my definition of civic engagement. Latent, a much preferable term to, let’s say, dormant considers my notion that civic engagement is synonymous with change. “This notion of latency is based on the simple observation that citizens actually do a lot of things that may not be directly or unequivocally classified as political participation but at the same time could be of great significance for future political activities” (Ekman). This adheres to the part of my definition solely concerning political action. But, it is important to note that civic engagement is not confined to a strict political sphere.

In addition, one more nonconformist measure is when the writer explains that as human beings we have power and without power we our weak and servile. ‘Those that are not in our power and weak and slavish and belong to others,” This quote shows that power is the key to our community and things that our not in our power is not for our own being which makes us weak, but if you do thing that our in our own that belongs to you, you will not be blame because you are not in

Individualism changes the way people define their ties to community and to other people outside relationships with family and friends. Individualism can be seen as positive when it is associated with freedom from social constraints and from oppressive conditions. It can be seen as negative when it is seen as leading to separation from others and to an absence of obligations. In the modern world, individualism is seen as part of society helping people to become free from the constraining traditional society. Alexis de Tocqueville believes individualism is where the individual is in a position to develop and nurture intimate affective bonds with loved ones.

In conclusion, the informal social control works better because it uses indirect methods that do not have any procedures using fear of humiliation and ridicule to control a person behavior. While formal social control is a complete stated rule to maintain the order in our society that as long as there are people who believe the idea we are influenced take it as our own even if we have a different

He identifies the basic structure of society as the primary subject of justice and considers justice a matter of the organization and internal divisions of a society. Therefore, justice is the most important political value and applies to the basic institutions of society. The form of a society's basic structure will have profound effects on the lives of citizens. The basic structure will influence not only their life prospects, but more deeply their characters, their goals, their attitudes, and their relationships. Rawls principles of justice articulates the central liberal ideas that the social cooperation (within a society) is necessary for citizens to be able to lead decent lives.