ROLE OF CIVIC SOCIETY
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Title
ROLE OF CIVIC SOCIETY
Creator
DR. S. B. M. MARUME
PROF. D. NDUDZO
DR. A. S. CHIKASHA
Description
In the broader field of public administration, the concepts of public accountability and control
comprise the element of civic society which, according to the literature available, has come to enjoy much
social, political, administrative, and intellectual prominence and currency in recent years. Civic society,
however, has a fairly long history. In a traditional sense, the terms state and civic society were used inter-
changeably and much treated synonymously. This trend continued till the eighteenth century. George W. F.
Hegel was the first political philosopher who separated and differentiated civic society from State. He was
followed by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels in the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, Antonio
Gramsei critically analyzed the concept of civic society which is the topic of this article.
comprise the element of civic society which, according to the literature available, has come to enjoy much
social, political, administrative, and intellectual prominence and currency in recent years. Civic society,
however, has a fairly long history. In a traditional sense, the terms state and civic society were used inter-
changeably and much treated synonymously. This trend continued till the eighteenth century. George W. F.
Hegel was the first political philosopher who separated and differentiated civic society from State. He was
followed by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels in the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, Antonio
Gramsei critically analyzed the concept of civic society which is the topic of this article.
Publisher
Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Science
Date
2016
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Citation
DR. S. B. M. MARUME
, PROF. D. NDUDZO
, and DR. A. S. CHIKASHA, “ROLE OF CIVIC SOCIETY,” ZOU Institutional Repository, accessed July 6, 2025, https://ir.zou.ac.zw/items/show/188.
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