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: • Community has a huge number of nuances of meaning, across many disciplines, almost all of which are important in the context of civil society. | : • Community has a huge number of nuances of meaning, across many disciplines, almost all of which are important in the context of civil society. | ||
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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
- Civic culture [r]: Related political and social attitudes crucial to the success of modern democracies. [e]
Civic engagement
Civil society organization
Commons
Family
Foundations
Independent sector
Nonprofit, Not-for-Profit, Voluntary, Independent
Nonprofit sector
Third sector
Nongovernmental organizations
Nongoverment sector
Social capital
Social movements
Market
State
Voluntary associations
Voluntary sector
Related Topics
- Catalog of civil society organizations listed in Citizendium [r]: Add brief definition or description
- First Great Awakening [r]: The First Great Awakening was a religious revitalization movement that swept the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s; there was a de-emphasis on ritual and ceremony and religion became intensely personal. [e]
- Second Great Awakening [r]: (1800–1830s): the second great religious revival in American history and consisted of renewed personal salvation experienced in revival meetings combined with dramatically increased interest in philanthropic projects. [e]
- Third Great Awakening [r]: The Third Great Awakening was a period of increased pietism and social activism in the last half of the 19th century; associated with the Social Gospel, Settlement House, and Charity Organization movements. [e]
- Fourth Great Awakening [r]: A religious awakening that some scholars (notably economic historian Robert Fogel) argue took place in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. [e]