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CIVIL SOCIETY AND ITS EVOLUTION IN KYRGYZSTAN AND UZBEKISTAN: A THEORETICAL ANALYSIS

    1 Author(s):  UTTAM KUMAR MANDAL

Vol -  8, Issue- 5 ,         Page(s) : 39 - 49  (2017 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/CASIRJ

Abstract

‘Civil society’ as a concept is perhaps one of the most intensely debated and contested concepts in the social sciences. There is no single, unified and consensual meaning of the term. Hence, the imagery of civil society is not so obvious. In the standard theoretical sense civil society is a collection of associations. Civil society tends to reflect a desire to recover powers for society that were usurped by states over a period of time. In classical liberal democratic thought, civil society has been a core idea. In ancient Greece the ‘civil’ part of civil society referred to the requirements of ‘citizenship’ viz., ‘knowledge’, ‘discourse’ and ‘participation’. Civil society was conceived as a commonwealth of the politically organized citizens. Aristotle’s equation of ‘civil society’ with ‘political society’ remained a main feature of the conceptual history of civil society over the centuries, although major deviations from this tradition occurred in the contractual theories in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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