Civil Society
Gosewinkel, Dieter
Central Europe
Balkan Peninsula
Southern Europe
Northern Europe
Eastern Europe
Western Europe
Theory, Methodology
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Since 1989, European historical science has developed a strong interest in the concept of "civil society". According to a combined-definition that draws on both action-related and area-related criteria, civil society is a space and a sphere of action that exists between the private sphere, the economy, and the state. Acts in this sphere are based on a minimum consensus of norms that includes tolerance, fairness and freedom from violence. The normative content of the concept has been criticized for supposedly devoting insufficient attention to questions of religion and of gender discrimination, as well as for treating the state and the economy as mere counterparts to civil society. However, as a leading concept of empirical research, the concept of civil society has taken historical enquiry into the achievements and limits of the field of associations, and into the historical comparison of societies, well beyond the borders of Western Europe.
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Jennifer Willenberg
Johannes Paulmann
William Petropulos
2011-01-12
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1450-1950
Central Europe
Balkan Peninsula
Southern Europe
Northern Europe
Eastern Europe
Western Europe
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