21. We must look at what people would be like outside of, and prior to, civil society. 22. We have been preparing our fighters to adjust themselves to civil society. 23. Listing the successes of perestroika in transforming Soviet society, Gorbachev declared that the Stalinist model of socialism was being replaced by a civil society. 24. By contrast, the sphere of civil society offers greater prospects for self-determination. 25. When we come to civil society, though, the possibilities for a much wider group of people are rather different. 26. Civil society is constituted by the social relationships and processes outside paid employment and not immediately affected by the state. 27. Civil society is the prime context of biological reproduction, the raising of future generations and the support of kin. 28. There is no self-evident reason for continuing to insist that urban sociology should be equated with consumption or civil society, interesting as these areas of study are. 29. But there are good reasons for examining how self-realisation and moral careers are developed within civil society. 30. Civil society provides, perhaps, the key means by which deeprooted emotional drives can be realised. |