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Parent topics
- Community [r]: Generally, a group of organisms sharing an environment. In human communities the shared environment may be defined by mutual interests, pooled resources, common beliefs, shared pursuits, perceived needs, or other common traits or characteristics, and may be associated with a shared identity which in the case of physical communities may include a sense of place. [e]
- Society [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Society (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
Subtopics
- Bürgerliche Gesellschaft [r]: (German) bourgeois or middle class society; the term used by Hegel in discussing civil society. [e]
- Citizen [r]: A legally recognized member of a political or civil community. [e]
- Civic culture [r]: Related political and social attitudes crucial to the success of modern democracies. [e]
- Civic engagement [r]: Individual and group action to identify, advocate for or problem-solve issues of civil or political concern. [e]
- Civil society organization [r]: An organization found in or characteristic of civil society. [e]
- Commons [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Commons (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Family [r]: (1) Persons related by blood, marriage, adoption or guardianship, including individuals placed for foster care. (2) The social organization of a household or housekeeping unit using certain rooms and housekeeping facilities in common. See nuclear family and extended family [e]
- Independent sector [r]: (1) A sector (logical or empirical subset) of civil society independent of or autonomous from government. (2) A national umbrella organization of civil society organizations or nonprofit organizations in Washington DC. [e]
- Market [r]: A term used in commerce and economics to denote a conjunction of buyers and sellers. [e]
- Nonprofit, not-for-profit, voluntary, independent [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nonprofit sector [r]: A sector or category of formal organizations, associations or corporations organized for purposes other than profit and governed by legal or ethical non-distribution constraints. Controversy continues over whether the nonprofit sector defines the third sector or civil society or is merely one of the component parts. [e]
- Nongovernmental organizations [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nongoverment sector [r]: A sector or category of organizations not part of government. [e]
- Foundation [r]: Dwight MacDonald once defined the Ford Foundation as " a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some." [e]
- Social capital [r]: Productive assets arising out of social relations, such as trust, cooperation, solidarity, social networks of relations and those beliefs, ideologies and institutions that contribute to production of goods. [e]
- Social enterprise [r]: Any organization or program that advances a social mission through entrepreneurial, earned income strategies; the category of social enterprise may, in specific uses, transcend more conventional profit/nonprofit and government/nongovernment distinctions. [e]
- Social movements [r]: Widely defined as a group of people with a common ideology acting to achieve certain general goals, often associated with major or significant social change. [e]
- State [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See State (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Third sector [r]: A sector or category of organizations and associations operating outside of government or markets (and, thus, in a third place or space). [e]
- Voluntary associations [r]: Non-professional grouping of people who wish to pursue a common interest or purpose. [e]
- Voluntary organisation [r]: British usage (and spelling) A voluntary organisation is a structured group of people who have come together of their own accord for a social rather than a commercial purpose. [e]
- Voluntary organization [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Voluntary sector [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Zivilgesellschaft [r]: Add brief definition or description
Civil society catalogs
- Catalog of types of civil society organizations [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Catalog of civil society organizations listed in Citizendium [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Catalog of civil society places [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Catalog of deliberation and dialogue techniques [r]: Add brief definition or description
Related topics
- Charity [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Civil rights movement [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Education [r]: Add brief definition or description
- First Great Awakening [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fourth Great Awakening [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Philanthropy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Progressive Era [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Religion [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Science [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Second Great Awakening [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Social economy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Social policy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Social reform [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Third Great Awakening [r]: Add brief definition or description