The Civil Sphere is a distinctively democratic field in modern societies, one that sustains universalizing cultural aspirations and organizational structures and that has tense and uncertain boundaries with other spheres of social life, like the economy, religion, family, and state.
Unlike the latter, which are more particularistic and hierarchical in character, the Civil Sphere defines itself in terms of solidarity - the feeling of being connected with every other person in the collectivity..
The Civil Sphere is a distinctively democratic field in modern societies, one that sustains universalizing cultural aspirations and organizational structures and that has tense and uncertain boundaries with other spheres of social life, like the economy, religion, family, and state
