The Civil Sphere in Latin America - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108426832 ISBN 13: 9781108426831

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

This book approaches today's 'front page' issues in Latin America in a unique and compelling way - by framing them inside civil sphere theory, a sociological model of the institutional and culture underpinnings and contradictions of democracy.

Über diesen Titel

Reseña del editor:

Social thinkers have criticized Latin American development as incomplete, backward, and anti-modern. This volume demonstrates that, while often deeply compromised and fragmented, Latin American civil spheres have remained resilient, institutionally and culturally, generating new oppositional movements, independent journalism, rebellious intellectuals, electoral power, and critical political parties. In widely different arenas, dissidents have employed the coruscating language of the civil sphere to pollute their oppressors in the name of justice. In the 1970s and 1980s, political thinkers heralded the resurrection of Latin American civil society, envisioning a new world of freedom and stability. Corruption, inequality, racism, and exclusion become pressing and urgent 'social problems', not despite the promises of democracy, but because of them. The premise of this volume is that Latin American civil spheres are powerful, even as they are compromised, creating challenges to anti-civil culture and institutions that trigger social reform. It is the first of three volumes that place civil sphere theory in a global context.

Biografía del autor:

Jeffrey C. Alexander, Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University, Connecticut, is the author of 20 books and editor of 25 more. He is one of the creators of contemporary cultural sociology, founder and director of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology, and co-editor of The American Journal of Cultural Sociology.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1108426832
• ISBN 13: 9781108426831
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 275
• Herausgeber: Alexander Jeffrey C., Tognato Carlo