civil society

(noun)

All of the institutions, voluntary organizations, and corporate bodies that are less than the state but greater than the family.

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Examples of civil society in the following topics:

  • Public Sphere and Civil Society

    • Putnam has argued that even non-political organizations in civil society are vital for democracy.
    • Others, however, have questioned how democratic civil society actually is.
    • It has also been argued that civil society is biased towards the global north.
    • Partha Chatterjee has argued that, in most of the world, "civil society is demographically limited. " For Jai Sen, civil society is a neo-colonial project driven by global elites in their own interests.
    • Formulate an argument which advocates for a strong civil society based on the definitions of civil society in this text

  • The Indus River Valley Civilization

    • The Indus River Valley Civilization, located in modern Pakistan, was one of the world’s three earliest widespread societies.
    • The Indus Civilization was the most widespread of the three early civilizations of the ancient world, along with Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
    • The Indus Valley Civilization, along with Mesopotamia and Pharonic Egypt, was one of the three “Ancient East” societies that are considered to be the cradles of civilization of the old world of man, and among the most widespread.
    • It is considered a Bronze Age society and inhabitants of the ancient Indus River Valley developed new techniques in metallurgy, the science of working with copper, bronze, lead, and tin.
    • In 1912, John Faithfull Fleet, an English civil servant working with the Indian Civil Services, discovered several Harappan seals.

  • Indus Valley Civilization

    • The Indus Valley Civilization was an urban civilization from 3300-1300 BCE that covered most of present-day Pakistan and northwest India.
    • The Indus Valley Civilization was a Bronze Age urban civilization that existed from 3300-1300 BCE and covered most of present-day Pakistan and northwest India.
    • Situated around the Indus River and the Ghaggar-Hakra River, the Indus Valley civilization is also known as the Harappan civilization, named after Harappa, the first city to be excavated in the 1920s.
    • Socially, the Indus Civilization appears to have been relatively egalitarian in nature.
    • After the collapse, regional cultures emerged showing influence of the Indus Valley Civilization to varying degrees.

  • The Caral Civilization

    • The Caral civilization flourished in the Andean region between the 30th and 18th centuries BCE.
    • The Caral civilization (also known as the Norte Chico civilization and as Caral-Supe) was a complex pre-Columbian society, located  in what is now the Norte Chico region of north-central coastal Peru, near Supe, Barranca province, Peru (200 km north of Lima).
    • It has been established as the oldest known civilization in the Americas, and as one of the six sites where civilization separately originated in the ancient world.
    • This complex society arose a millennium after Sumer in Mesopotamia, was contemporaneous with the Egyptian pyramids, and predated the Mesoamerican Olmec by nearly two millennia.
    • Its urban plan was used by Andean civilizations for the next four thousand years.

  • Conclusion: Change in the 1960s

    • Their efforts helped unravel the national consensus and laid bare a far more fragmented society.
    • As a result, people from a wide range of ethnic groups attempted to reform American society to make it more equitable.
    • The African American civil rights movement made significant progress in the 1960s.
    • While Congress played a role by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968, the actions of civil rights groups were instrumental in forging new paths, pioneering new techniques and strategies, and achieving breakthrough successes.
    • His social programs, investments in education, support for the arts, and commitment to civil rights changed the lives of countless people and transformed society in many ways.

  • Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement

    • The Civil Rights Movement aimed to outlaw racial discrimination against black Americans, particularly in the South.
    • The Civil Rights Movement generally lasted from 1955 to 1968 and was particularly focused in the American South.
    • Board of Education decision in 1954, civil rights organization broadened their strategy to emphasize "direct action"—primarily boycotts, sit-ins, Freedom Rides, marches and similar tactics that relied on mass mobilization, nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience.
    • Churches, local grassroots organizations, fraternal societies, and black-owned businesses mobilized volunteers to participate in broad-based actions.
    • Civil Rights Movement.

  • Civil Rights and Voting Rights

    • The Civil Rights Act of 1964, enacted on July 2, 1964, was a landmark piece of legislation.
    • Johnson, marking perhaps the most important domestic achievement of his Great Society program.
    • Kennedy called for a civil rights act in his speech about civil rights on June 11, 1963.
    • The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act changed the lives of African Americans and transformed society in many ways.
    • Examine the passage and significance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Individualism

    • Individualism is a philosophy that stresses the value and rights of the individual vis-a-vis society and government.
    • Individualists promote the exercise of one's goals and desires and so value independence and self-reliance while opposing external interference upon one's own interests by society or institutions such as the government.
    • Civil libertarianism is not a complete ideology; rather, it is a collection of views on the specific issues of civil liberties and civil rights.
    • Because of this, a civil libertarian outlook is compatible with many other political philosophies, and civil libertarianism is found on both the right and left in modern politics.
    • Individualism is often contrasted either with totalitarianism or with collectivism, but in fact there is a spectrum of behaviors at the societal level ranging from highly individualistic societies through mixed societies to collectivist societies.

  • Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization

    • The Indus River Valley Civilization contained urban centers with well-conceived and organized infrastructure, architecture and systems of governance.
    • The population of the Indus Valley Civilization may have once been as large as 5 million.
    • Unlike Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt, the inhabitants of the Indus Valley Civilization did not build large, monumental structures.
    • Archaeological records provide no immediate answers regarding a center of authority or depictions of people in power in Harappan society.
    • Cluster of Indus Valley Civilization cities and excavation sites along the course of the Indus River in Pakistan.

  • The Neopalatial Period

    • The apex of Minoan civilization occurred during the Neopalatial period, and lasted from 1700 to 1450 BCE.
    • The Neopalatial period occurred from 1700 to 1450 BCE, during which time the Minoans saw the height of their civilization.
    • Not much is known about Minoan society and culture, although much can be speculated from the archaeology.
    • The society is believed to not have had a king, as the palace centers are not centered around a single room nor are they designed for use by a ruling family and their attendants.
    • After this, during the Final and Postpalatial period from 1450 to 1100 BCE the island was occupied by the Mycenaean Greeks before the final collapse of Minoan and Mycenaean civilization and the beginning of the Greek Dark Age.