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Revision as of 19:26, 15 August 2007
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Parent Topics
- Science [r]: The organized body of knowledge based on non–trivial refutable concepts that can be verified or rejected on the base of observation and experimentation [e]
- Religion [r]: Belief in, and systems of, worshipful dedication to a superhuman power or belief in the ultimate nature of existence. [e]
- Education [r]: Learning, teaching, research and scholarship activities for the purpose of organizing, presenting and acquiring knowledge, skills or social norms. [e]
- • Education is generally deemed to be fundamental to civil society because of its role and function in socializing youths and recent immigrants to their roles and responsibilities as citizens.
- Charity [r]: From the Latin, caritas, the non-erotic love of others; modern connotations stress efforts to aid or help others. [e]
- Community [r]: Generally, a group of organisms sharing an environment. In human communities the shared environment may be defined by mutual interests, pooled resources, common beliefs, shared pursuits, perceived needs, or other common traits or characteristics, and may be associated with a shared identity which in the case of physical communities may include a sense of place. [e]
- • Community has a huge number of nuances of meaning, across many disciplines, almost all of which are important in the context of civil society.
- Philanthropy [r]: Action for the love (or good) of humankind; can refer narrowly to fundraising or broadly to "private action for the public good". [e]
Subtopics
- Citizen [r]: A legally recognized member of a political or civil community. [e]
- Civic culture [r]: Related political and social attitudes crucial to the success of modern democracies. [e]
- Civic engagement [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Civil society organization [r]: An organization found in or characteristic of civil society. [e]
- Commons [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Commons (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Family [r]: (1) Persons related by blood, marriage, adoption or guardianship, including individuals placed for foster care. (2) The social organization of a household or housekeeping unit using certain rooms and housekeeping facilities in common. See nuclear family and extended family [e]
- Foundation [r]: Dwight MacDonald once defined the Ford Foundation as " a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some." [e]
- Independent sector [r]: (1) A sector (logical or empirical subset) of civil society independent of or autonomous from government. (2) A national umbrella organization of civil society organizations or nonprofit organizations in Washington DC. [e]
- Market [r]: A term used in commerce and economics to denote a conjunction of buyers and sellers. [e]
- Nonprofit, Not-for-Profit, Voluntary, Independent [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nonprofit sector [r]: A sector or category of formal organizations, associations or corporations organized for purposes other than profit and governed by legal or ethical non-distribution constraints. Controversy continues over whether the nonprofit sector defines the third sector or civil society or is merely one of the component parts. [e]
- Third sector [r]: A sector or category of organizations and associations operating outside of government or markets (and, thus, in a third place or space). [e]
- Nongovernmental organizations [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nongoverment sector [r]: A sector or category of organizations not part of government. [e]
- Social capital [r]: Productive assets arising out of social relations, such as trust, cooperation, solidarity, social networks of relations and those beliefs, ideologies and institutions that contribute to production of goods. [e]
- Social movements [r]: Widely defined as a group of people with a common ideology acting to achieve certain general goals, often associated with major or significant social change. [e]
- State [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See State (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Voluntary associations [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Voluntary sector [r]: Add brief definition or description