Real Civil Societies

Jeffrey Alexander is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles

• Introduction - Jeffrey C AlexanderCivil Society I, II, III: Constructing an Empirical Concept from Normative Controversies and Historical TransformationsPART ONE: UNCIVIL HIERARCHIESBanfield′s Amoral Familism Revisited - Elisa P ReisImplications of High Inequality Structures for Civil SocietyBetween Economic Dissolution and the Return of the Social - Michael PuseyThe Contest for Civil Society in AustraliaCivil Society, Patronage, and Democracy - Luis RonigerCivil Society and Uncivil Organizations - G[um]oran AhrnePART TWO: BIFURCATING DISCOURSESCitizen and Enemy as Symbolic Classification - Jeffrey C AlexanderOn the Polarizing Discourse of Civil SocietyBarbarism and Civility in the Discourses of Fascism, Communism and Democracy - Philip SmithVariations on a Set of ThemesThe Racial Discourse of Civil Society - Ronald N JacobsThe Rodney King Affair and the City of Los AngelesPART THREE: ARBITRARY FOUNDINGSNeither Faith nor Commerce - David ZaretPrinting and the Unintended Origins of English Public OpinionMistrusting Civility - Piotr SztompkaPredicament of Post-Communist SocietyThe Public Sphere and a European Civil Society - V[ac]ictor P[ac]erez-D[ac]iaz