PSCI 1100 Lecture Notes - United Nations Global Compact, Scottish Enlightenment, Kimberley Process Certification Scheme
14 Apr 2013
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Civil society (cs) in political theory: cs = political community (aristotle) 17th-18th cent. (social contract theory): cs = the state: cs/the state vs. state of nature (hobbes, locke), cs essentially the same as the state. : cs vs. the state: cs = market + corporations (+ admin. ) (hegel) (a) cs = commercial society (scottish enlightenment); (global) sphere of production and exchange (marx). Ferguson, smith (scottish enlightenment)- commercial society has some neg. effects on people. Marx- cs was global from the beginning, (b) cs = voluntary associations (tocqueville). That will pursue econ/moral interst on their own. : cs vs. market and state: cs = bourgeois institutions and working class assoc. (i. e. basis of class hegemony/governance and counterhegemony/resistance) (gramsci). Dominance and power of capitalist class over working class, and also the realm of possibility to overthrow the working class. Cs and transnational cs: history: cs, 19th cent. revolutions, and expansion of rights.
