Citizenship in Civil Society?

Ossewaarde, Marinus R.R.

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“…For Burawoy, civil society is not a 'bourgeois society' or 'bürgerliche Gesellschaft' that expresses the private faces of factions, associations and social movements, but is the domain of publics struggling against capitalist domination (c.f. Ossewaarde, 2006). That is to say, in contrast with Mills and Gouldner, and also different from Sennett and Beck, Burawoy does not identify civil society movements as being part of the global power elite (c.f.…”

Section: The New Sociological Imaginationmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…' In his view (2005b: 321; 324), these movements act against a socially irresponsible power elite or 'state-business apparatus' that, in the global age, has become less concerned with their welfare mission and more with the corporate interest, so that social burdens are increasingly being downloaded onto the governed. For Burawoy, civil society is not a 'bourgeois society' or 'bürgerliche Gesellschaft' that expresses the private faces of factions, associations and social movements, but is the domain of publics struggling against capitalist domination (c.f., Ossewaarde, 2006). That is to say, in contrast with Mills and Gouldner, and also different from Sennett and Beck, Burawoy does not identify the civil society movements as being part of the global power elite.…”

Section: For Public Sociology For 'Democratic Socialism'mentioning

confidence: 92%

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Sociology Back to the Publics

Ossewaarde

2007

Sociology

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This paper is a reading of the 'new sociology' that is mainly identified with the works of C. Wright Mills and Alvin Boulder. Its main argument is that the new sociology has given back a public face to sociology during the past forty years. This is arguably different from the 'old sociology' that has not been able to free itself from private social values. It is argued that Mills' power elite and Boulder's coming crisis theses have provided the foundation for many new sociologists' common enterprise to develop a critical and public sociology, which is informative for shaping what Mills called a 'democratic society of publics'. The new sociologists share the same critique of modern societies, namely, that though most modern societies have formal democracies, a substantial democratic social structure of publics is often lacking, due to the erosion of the public sphere by private values.

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Section: The New Sociological Imaginationmentioning

confidence: 89%

Section: For Public Sociology For 'Democratic Socialism'mentioning

confidence: 92%

Sociology Back to the Publics

Ossewaarde

2007

Sociology

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“…Modernization not only expanded the reach of the government, but also facilitated economic and social integration beyond one's own community bringing about modern publics and civil society (Fraser, 2007). Thus, civil society is essentially a product of the nation -state (Ossewaarde, 2006). Intermediary organizations facilitate demands for responsibility from a distant national government.…”

Section: Civil Society and The Locus Of Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Community Building, Civil Society and Societal Service Production in China

Salmenkari

2011

Journal of Civil Society

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“…In Europe's liberal democracies, civil society is the rational form through which democracy and capitalism are reconciled. Civil society can be defined as a form of existence located outside the family, state, and the market, where people, emancipated from their communities, realize common interests, ideals, values, or identities in voluntary, contractual, and associational relationships (Ossewaarde 2006). As a democratic institution, civil society is, at least potentially, an extraparliamentary force of movement activism that can potentially check, through forms of resistance and the exercise of counter-power, the excesses of the power structures of liberal democracy (state, bureaucracy, market, large firm, and so forth) (Beck 1997;Honneth 1995).…”

Section: Liberal Democracy As An Apollonian Unity Of Oppositesmentioning

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The crowd in the Occupy movement

Ossewaarde

2012

Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory

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In this article, I recast Elias Canetti's notion of crowds by placing it in the framework provided by Friedrich Nietzsche's Heraclitean dialectic of Apollonian and Dionysian opposites. The argument is introduced that, in European societies, the forms of social existence are mainly Apollonian, whereas crowds are Dionysian. Along this line of reasoning, Dionysian drives, and hence crowds, tend to be marginalized in Europe's Apollonian culture. I argue that, in the liberal democracies of the Cold War era, crowds were marginalized, although they did emerge in the rock 'n' roll mania of the 1960s. West European post-Cold War, I maintain, is characterized by the collapse of liberal democracy and the rise of global capitalism. The recent financial crisis is an event that has disrupted the hegemony of global capitalism. In the context of this disruption, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) emerges as a movement in which post-modern crowds play an important port. OWS is presented as a new social movement that is Apollonian in substance, while its crowds embody and manifest a certain Dionysian vitality.

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Citizenship in Civil Society?

Cited by 7 publications

References 41 publications

Sociology Back to the Publics

Sociology Back to the Publics

Community Building, Civil Society and Societal Service Production in China

The crowd in the Occupy movement

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