Civil Society and Non-governmental Organisations Sample Clauses

Civil Society and Non-governmental Organisations. A discussion of how to understand NGOs and GROs is connected to the notion of civil society (Xxxxxxxxxx 2002, Xxxxxxx 2000). If civil society were an iceberg, then NGOs would be among the more noticeable of the peaks above the waterline (Xxxxxxx, 2000, p8). However, there is no unanimously agreed definition of civil society. The concept has been shifting and contested since the Enlightenment era in the eighteenth century. Almost all the scholars of this time regarded civil society as an entity outside the state. Xxxx and Xxxxxx distinguished between civil society as the ensemble of socio- economic relations and the forces of production compared to the state as the super structural manifestation of class relations inside civil society. To Hegel, civil society was a social formation intermediate between the family and the state; Xxxxxxx sees civil society as a space between coercive relations of the state and the economic sphere of production (Bebbington 2002). Recent definitions of civil society get further than merely defining it through its relation to the state. Xxxxxxx (2000) believes civil society is:
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