Lýsing:
The civil sphere is a distinctively democratic field in modern societies, one that sustains universalizing cultural aspirations and organizational structures and that has tense and uncertain boundaries with other spheres of social life, like the economy, religion, family, and state. Unlike the latter, which are more particularistic and hierarchical in character, the civil sphere defines itself in terms of solidarity - the feeling of being connected with every other person in the collectivity.
The utopian ideals of democratic solidarity shape every modern society, even if they are often compromised by the messy realities of social life. This volume uses the theory of the civil sphere to shed new light on Nordic societies, while at the same time drawing on the distinctive experiences of the Nordic nations to reflect on and advance the theory of the civil sphere. Nordic societies have long been admired for creating a distinctive form of social democracy, but this admirable achievement has not been well conceptualized theoretically.
Most attempts to explain Nordic social democracy focus on material and organizational factors. This volume, by contrast, emphasizes the cultural foundations and characteristics of social democracy, demonstrating how civil sensibilities are necessary for the creation of an egalitarian and democratic state. Nordic civil spheres, however, are not only pro-civil but also white in color, European in ethnicity, secular in character and gender-equal in a subtly restrictive manner.
Such primordialization of state civility is vividly on display in the sometime tense relationships that develop among natives and “foreigners” in Nordic countries, relationships that expose the primordial undersides of the social democratic codes and civil values that constitute the Nordic civil sphere. A major contribution to the theory of the civil sphere and to our understanding of the cultural and normative underpinnings of social and political life, this volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars of sociology and politics.
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- Höfundur: Jeffrey C. Alexander
- Útgáfa:1
- Útgáfudagur: 2020-01-07
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- Format:ePub
- ISBN 13: 9781509538850
- Print ISBN: 9781509538843
- ISBN 10: 1509538852
Efnisyfirlit
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Notes on the Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Civil Spheres, Pro-Civil States, and Their Contradictions
- Conclusion
- Note
- References
- Part I Social Democracy and the Civil Sphere
- 1 The Civil Sphere and the Welfare State
- Introduction
- Conceptualizing the Civil Sphere
- Democracy, the Civil Sphere, and the State
- The Social Question
- The Welfare State and Its Critics
- Civil Sphere Redux
- Note
- References
- 2 Nordic Civil Spheres and Pro-Civil States
- Introduction
- Civil Reforms of the State
- Communicative Institutions in the Nordic Countries
- Social Movements and the State
- The Importance of Social Democratic Parties
- Concluding Discussion: Checks and Balances
- Note
- References
- 3 Complicated Translations
- Introduction
- Civil Sphere Theory
- Translation and Performativity in Civil Sphere Theory
- Philanthropy in Denmark
- The Egmont Case
- Discussion
- Note
- References
- 1 The Civil Sphere and the Welfare State
- 4 “You Can’t Liberate the Free”: Gender, Work, and Swedish Hijabis
- Introduction
- Material and Methods
- Debating the Judgment
- The SAS Controversy
- “The Right to Our Bodies”: Social Protest
- Complexities in the Swedish Civil Sphere
- Afterword
- References
- 5 Arts Difference and Incorporation: Swedish Hip-Hop as a Site for Civil Repair
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Note
- References
- 6 Sámi Sport in the Nordic Civil Sphere: Assimilation, Multiculturalism, and Multiple Axes of Membership
- Introduction
- The Primordial State as Civil Colonizer and Its Sports Tool
- Time and Function: The Civil Core and Peripheries of the Norwegian Welfare State
- Space and Function: The Civil Core and Peripheries of Sápmi
- Conclusion: The Duality of Inclusion
- Notes
- References
- 7 “They’re Immigrants Who Are Kind of Swedish”: Universalism, Primordialism, and Modes of Incorporation in the Swedish Civil Sphere
- Introduction
- Equality and Individualism in the Swedish Civil Sphere
- Dimensions of Belonging in a Swedish Context
- Conclusion: A Crisis of Meaning
- Note
- References
- 8 Immigrant Incorporation in Education: High School Students’ Negotiation of Belonging
- Introduction
- Immigrant Incorporation
- The Backdrop of Swedish High School Policy
- City Academy
- The School Culture of City Academy
- Negotiating Swedishness
- Discussion
- Note
- References
- 9 Global Terrorism and the Civil Sphere in Norway: Renegotiating Civil Codes
- Introduction
- Terrorism and the Civil Sphere
- Civil Codes and the Terrorism Threat in Norway
- Terrorism, Solidarity, and the Boundaries of the Norwegian Civil Sphere
- Conclusion
- Note
- References
- 10 The True Finns/Finns Party: A Right-Wing Populist Party and the Backlash against Multiculturalism in a Consensus-Oriented Civil Sphere
- Introduction
- Populist Radical Right Parties and Conflict over Modes of Incorporation
- Act 1: Becoming a Successor Party
- Act 2: Transformation, Increased Scrutiny, and Electoral Success
- Act 3: The Finns Party Moves Further Right
- References
- The Civil State in the Nordic Region
- The Civil State in the Nordic Region as a Work in Progress
- Building a Civil State Outside the North and the West
- Note
- References
- Introduction
- The Welfare State as Locus of the Civil
- Immigration and the Nordic Civil Sphere
- Inclusion and Exclusion in the Civil Sphere
- Conclusion
- Note
- References
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