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Write short note on the following from a sociological perspective: Citizenship and Civil Society

  • UPSC 2012
  • Politics and Society

Citizenship is membership of a political community with rights and duties, a status guaranteed by the state. Civil society is the realm of voluntary association between the family, the market and the state: NGOs, trade unions, caste and religious bodies, social movements and the media. Sociologically, the two are mutually constitutive. Civil society is where…

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  • Citizenship: from status to practice
  • Civil society: changing meanings
  • How they reinforce each other
  • The Indian critique
  • Conclusion

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