The spirit of the civil sphere: Activating static conceptions of volunteerism and citizenship
Civil Society in Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 978-1-84950-607-6, eISBN: 978-1-84950-608-3
Publication date: 16 November 2009
Abstract
Tocqueville's theory emerged from a social movement–infested society rather than from the rather bucolic and static American democracy that he sometimes portrays. And while Putnam (2001) and others try to resurrect this cooperative view of society using the concept of social capital, this approach is inadequate to explain major changes in society and, indeed, only repeats power resources theory with a different linguistic cloak.
Citation
Janoski, T. (2009), "The spirit of the civil sphere: Activating static conceptions of volunteerism and citizenship", Enjolras, B. and Henrik Sivesind, K. (Ed.) Civil Society in Comparative Perspective (Comparative Social Research, Vol. 26), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 263-293. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0195-6310(2009)0000026015
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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