Public sphere

Examples of Public sphere in the following topics:

• Public Sphere and Civil Society

  • The public sphere is composed of voluntary associations that promote social capital and social cohesion while enhancing democracy.
  • The study of the public sphere centers on the idea of participatory democracy, and how public opinion becomes political action.
  • 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.

• Participatory Democracy

  • Some scholars argue for refocusing the term on community-based activity within the domain of civil society, based on the belief that a strong non-governmental public sphere is a precondition for the emergence of a strong liberal democracy.

• Lenski's Sociological Evolution Approach

  • Advances in the technology of communication translate into advances in a society's economic system and political system, distribution of goods, social inequality and other spheres of social life.

• Sociology Today

  • As all spheres of human activity are affected by the interplay between social structure and individual agency, sociology has gradually expanded to focus on more diverse subjects such as health, medical, military and penal institutions, the Internet, and the role of social activity in the development of scientific knowledge.

• Gender Messages in the Family

  • This teaches their children that the expected gender roles for men and women require the father to work and the mother to remain in the domestic sphere.

• New Social Movements

  • According to Melucci, one of the leading new social movement theorists, these movements arise not from relations of production and distribution of resources, but within the sphere of reproduction and the life world.
  • Further, new social movements are located in civil society or the cultural sphere as a major arena for collective action rather than instrumental action in the state, which Claus Offe characterizes as "bypass[ing] the state. " Moreover, since new social movements are not normally concerned with directly challenging the state, they are regarded as anti-authoritarian and as resisting incorporation at the institutional level.

• Theism and Monotheism

  • They are thought to dwell mainly in otherworldly or holy places like Heaven, Hell, the sky, the under-world, or in a supernatural plane or celestial sphere.

• Characteristics of the State

  • 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.

• Student Subcultures

  • Talcott Parsons argued that as we move from the family and corresponding values to another sphere with differing values, we would experience an "anomie situation. "

• Women as a Minority

  • Discrimination against women is evident in a number of different spheres of society, whether political, legal, economic, or familial.
  • Issues commonly associated with notions of women's rights include, though are not limited to, the rights to: bodily integrity and autonomy; vote (suffrage); hold public office; work; fair wages or equal pay; own property; be educated; serve in the military or be conscripted; enter into legal contracts; and to have marital, parental, and religious rights.