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The Voice of Society and the Crisis: The Potential and Limits of Reflexivity and Civility

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Pérez-Díaz V.
Stan Rzeczy
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2017
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issue 1(12) The Relational Turn in Sociology: Implications for the Study of Society, Culture, and Persons
277-301
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The strategic capacity of human agency to orient itself in a context of growing uncertainty and complexity depends on the degree and quality of its reflexivity and relationality, and of the civic impulse arising from the connection between both. The present article explores this capacity by analysing the results of an opinion survey carried out in May 2016, and by developing an argument about one collective agent: the Spanish citizenry. Spanish citizens send three main messages. First, they opt for a European course and for a range of policies consistent with convergence (and debate) between the traditions of social democracy and conservative liberalism. Second, they are attentive to the task of recreating a political community. Third, they ask for civil forms of doing politics. To send these messages they draw on socio-cultural resources, and forms of reflexivity and relationality. The article addresses society’s relations with the political class and with itself and the cultural resources (economic knowledge, historical narratives) that map these relationships within their global context and their past.
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The Relevance of Civility Today

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Misztal B.
Studia Socjologiczne
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2024
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issue 1
5-26
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The paper emphasizes the contemporary relevance of civility, understood as a respectful way of treating the other and recognition of people’s differences and sensibilities. It outlines the sociological importance of civility as being connected with its role as both a normative guidance orienting us towards prescriptive ideals and as an empirical concept with important social impact on identities and actions. The paper examines Adam Smith’s theory which roots civility in a commercial society, analyses Elias’s (1994) history of civility as the folding of the logic of the civilizing process, and it debates theories linking the idea of civility to civil society. In conclusion, emphases are put on the importance of civility, seen as the act of respectful engaging with people across deep divisions, for the quality of democracy.
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KOBIETY DZIAŁACZKI – OGRANICZENIA I REALIZACJE ROLI

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Radiukiewicz A.
Rocznik Lubuski
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2016
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vol. 42
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issue 1
309-323
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W artykule podjęta została kwestia ograniczeń, którym sprostać muszą kobiety podejmujące próbę obywatelskiej aktywności. Aktywistki organizacji wchodzą bowiem w rolę, która nie jest dla nich skrojona, gdyż oparta na męskich warunkach, definiowana stereotypowo. Zaprezentowane w artykule wyniki analiz indywidualnych wywiadów jakościowych z działaczkami i działaczami różnego typu organizacji społeczeństwa obywatelskiego pozwalają zaobserwować symptomy ograniczeń, ujawniające się w wypowiedziach respondentek. Materiał empiryczny umożliwia sformułowanie wniosków, iż kobiety, podejmując decyzję o zaangażowaniu się w organizacji, dokonują wysiłku polegającego, po pierwsze, na podważeniu stereotypu kobiecości, a po drugie, muszą dokonywać – różnie rozstrzyganych – wyborów pomiędzy działaniem w organizacji a troską o rodzinę. Mogą przy tym zaakceptować, że organizacje stanowią wyraz reguł męskiego świata i wpasowywać się w nie w miarę swoich możliwości. W bardziej skrajnych przypadkach przyjmują jednak strategie podważania lub porzucania roli społecznej kobiety, decydując się na aktywizm.
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The article presents limits that women have to face when they try to take up active citizenship. The activists of organizations take up roles that are not meant for them. These roles, based on masculine conditions, are defined stereotypically. The results of analysis of individual qualitative interviews with female and male activists of different types of organizations in civil society, as presented in the article, make it possible to observe symptoms of limits that appear in the statements of female respondents. Empirical material enables formulating conclusions that women, while making decisions about getting involved in organization, first of all, put considerable effort into questioning the stereotype of femininity. Secondly, they have to make, differently resolved, choices between being active in organization and taking care of a family. They can accept that these organizations reflect masculine world and thus they have to accept it within their abilities and toadjust to them. In more extreme cases, however, they accept strategies of questioning or abandoning the social role of a woman, and taking up the role of an activist.
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Neoliberalism and Civil Society: Swedish Exceptionalism in a Comparative Perspective - On the Conceptual and Real History of Civil Society

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Eliaeson S.
Stan Rzeczy
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2017
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issue 2(13) Sociology Under State Socialism
227-253
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Social science is a battlefield for the formation of concepts. The Swedish case is particular. “Civil society” re-entered the scene as a neoliberal and social-conservative reaction against the social-democratic ideology of the “strong state,” in which the state and society were conceived to be almost synonymous. The Swedish revival of an old concept is in obvious contrast with the concept’s reception east of the Elbe in recent decades, where “civil society” has often been used as a label for grass roots social movements, which are independent of the state and the nomenklatura, in malfunctioning regimes with low legitimacy and poor output. This idea is lacking in the Swedish case, where we find a characteristic merger between the “top-down” and “bottom-up” perspectives. “Real, existing” civil society in Sweden has a long history. Self-organised initiatives sought support from the state and often received it – in some cases creating institutions that grew into state agencies. Forestry, electrification, and early social insurance provide examples of the interplay between the state, the market, and society. Swedish civil society has deep roots in history, going back at least to late medieval days. Civil society was a formative element in the design of the relatively successful “Swedish model” through social engineering and piecemeal reforms during the period from the 1930s to the late 1960s.
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Obywatelskość jako kompetencja cywilizacyjna

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Peisert A.
Dyskurs & Dialog
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2019
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vol. I
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issue 1 (1)
21-31
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Today, citizenship is the subject of many political manifestos, but is rarely seen as an attribute of a civilized lifestyle. Civilized citizenship is, on the one hand, the state of restraint of the drives, the civility, on the other – a form of social life open to dialogue and diversity. It is part of Europe’s cultural heritage. It also exists in entirely local contexts, in which the propagators of citizenship try to organise the local community life.
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Obywatelskość jest współcześnie tematem wielu programów politycznych, rzadko jednak postrzega się ją jako atrybut cywilizowanego stylu życia. Cywilizowana obywatelskość to z jednej strony stan okiełznania popędów, ogłady, z drugiej – forma życia społecznego otwarta na dialog i różnorodność. Jest ona częścią europejskiego dziedzictwa kulturowego. Ujawnia się także w zupełnie lokalnych kontekstach, w których krzewiciele obywatelskości próbują organizować lokalne życie społeczne.
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