The Nordic Civil Sphere by Jeffrey C Alexander PAPERBACK 9781509538843

The Nordic Civil Sphere\nby Jeffrey C Alexander\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Jeffrey C Alexander\nTitle: The Nordic Civil Sphere\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Sociology\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781509538843\nISBN-10: 1509538844\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe civil sphere is a distinctively democratic field in modern societies, one that sustains universalizing cultural aspirations and organizational structures and that has tense and uncertain boundaries with other spheres of social life, like the economy, religion, family, and state.  Unlike the latter, which are more particularistic and hierarchical in character, the civil sphere defines itself in terms of solidarity \u2013 the feeling of being connected with ev.