private sphere

(noun)

The home, or the domestic realm.

Related Terms

Examples of private sphere in the following topics:

  • Public Sphere and Civil Society

    • It is sometimes considered to include the family and the private sphere and then referred to as the third sector of society, distinct from government and business.
    • The public sphere mediates between the private sphere and the Sphere of Public Authority, "The private sphere comprised civil society in the narrower sense, that is to say, the realm of commodity exchange and of social labor. " Whereas the Sphere of Public Authority dealt with the state, or realm of the police and the ruling class, the public sphere crossed over both these realms and "through the vehicle of public opinion it put the state in touch with the needs of society. " "This area is conceptually distinct from the state: it [is] a site for the production and circulation of discourses that can in principle be critical of the state. " The public sphere "is also distinct from the official economy; it is not an arena of market relations but rather one of discursive relations, a theater for debating and deliberating rather than for buying and selling. " These distinctions between "state apparatuses, economic markets, and democratic associations...are essential to democratic theory. " The people themselves came to see the public sphere as a regulatory institution against the authority of the state.
    • The basic belief in public sphere theory is that political action is steered by the public sphere and that the only legitimate governments are those that listen to the public sphere.
    • "Democratic governance rests on the capacity of and opportunity for citizens to engage in enlightened debate. " Much of the debate over the public sphere involves what is the basic theoretical structure of the public sphere, how information is deliberated in the public sphere, and what influence the public sphere has over society.
    • Voluntary associations, such as Elks Clubs, make up the public sphere.

  • Women and Democracy

    • During the early nineteenth century, women were mainly relegated to the private sphere through the "cult of domesticity."

  • Republican Motherhood

    • Republican Motherhood, while maintaining women's role in the private sphere, gave women more rights to education.
    • Women were expected to focus on domestic issues, but Locke's treatises helped to engender an appreciation for the value of the domestic sphere and were influential in highlighting the important role of women in society.
    • Greater educational access included making subjects of classical education (such as mathematics and philosophy), which were once studied only by males, integral to curricula at public and private schools for girls.
    • On the one hand, the concept reinforced the idea of a domestic women's sphere separate from the public world of men.
    • On the other hand, it encouraged the education of women and imbued their "traditional" sphere with a dignity and importance that had been missing from previous conceptions of women's work.

  • Gender and Politics

    • Revolutionary-era American society limited women's actions to the domestic or private sphere.
    • They continued to be relegated to the home and domestic spheres, and were unwelcome in political and economic contexts.
    • The ideal Whig woman would help the patriotic cause from inside her separate sphere, engaging in domestic chores and preparing to educate the next generation according to the values espoused by the men who fought for independence.

  • The Family Economy: Women and Children

    • "Separate spheres" refers to an ideology that defines and prescribes different realms for women and men.
    • The notion of separate spheres dictates that men, based primarily on their biological makeup as well as on the will of God, inhabit the public sphere—the world of politics, economy, commerce, and law.
    • Women's "proper sphere," according to the ideology, is the private realm of domestic life, child-rearing, housekeeping, and religious education.
    • Women were confined to the private realm of the oikos while men occupied the public sphere of the polis.
    • Women's confinement to the private sphere was reinforced by cultural and legal arrangements, such as the lack of women's suffrage, legal prohibitions against women undertaking professions such as medicine and law, and discouragement of women obtaining higher education.

  • Crystal Structure: Packing Spheres

    • Within a crystalline material, each atom can be thought of as a sphere.
    • These spheres are packed into unit cells.
    • Each sphere that participates in a crystal structure has a coordination number, which corresponds to the number of spheres within the crystalline structure that touch the sphere that is being evaluated.
    • For a sphere in the interior of a crystal lattice, the number of spheres contacting the sphere that is being evaluated is known as the bulk coordination number.
    • For a sphere at the surface of a crystal, the number of spheres contacting the sphere being evaluated is known as the surface coordination number.

  • Problems

    • Consider a sphere of ionized hydrogen plamsa that is undergoing spherical gravitational collapse.
    • The sphere cools by emission of bremsstrahlung radiation in its interior.
    • At $t=t_0$ the sphere is optically thin.
    • What is the total luminosity of the sphere as a function of $M_0, R(t)$ and $T_0$while the sphere is optically thin?
    • Give an implicit relation in terms of $R(t)$ for the time $t_1$ when the sphere becomes optically thick.

  • Colonial Government

    • For instance, elected bodies, specifically the assemblies and county governments, directly determined the development of a wide range of public and private business.
    • They were also involved in the oversight of roads, taverns, schools, and relief of the poor, making them fundamental to the development of public and private enterprises in a particular region.
    • Unlike Europe, where aristocratic families and established churches dominated the political sphere, American political culture was relatively open to economic, social, religious, ethnic, and geographical interests (although still excluding the participation of American Indians, women, and African Americans).
    • Hence, the colonial American political system was remarkably different from Europe, where widespread public participation in the political sphere by free white males was expected and enjoyed.

  • Promotional Methods

    • B2B marketers use industry or trade publications, trade shows, private events, and social media to generate awareness about their products and services.
    • Social media is fast becoming a promotional tool used to position B2B brands in the digital sphere.

  • B.5 Chapter 5

    • Consider a sphere of ionized hydrogen plasma that is undergoing spherical gravitational collapse.
    • The sphere cools by emission of bremsstrahlung radiation in its interior.
    • At $t=t_0$ the sphere is optically thin.
    • What is the total luminosity of the sphere as a function of $M_0, R(t)$ and $T_0$ while the sphere is optically thin?
    • Give an implicit relation in terms of $R(t)$$t_1$ for the time $t_1$ when the sphere becomes optically thick.