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The Relevance of Civility Today

Barbara Misztal
Studia Socjologiczne | 2024 | No 1 | 5-26 | DOI: 10.24425/sts.2024.149314
Keywords market respect civil society democracy civility
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Abstract

The paper emphasizes the contemporary relevance of civility, understood as a respectful way of treating the other and recognition of people’s differences and sensibilities. It outlines the sociological importance of civility as being connected with its role as both a normative guidance orienting us towards prescriptive ideals and as an empirical concept with important social impact on identities and actions. The paper examines Adam Smith’s theory which roots civility in a commercial society, analyses Elias’s (1994) history of civility as the folding of the logic of the civilizing process, and it debates theories linking the idea of civility to civil society. In conclusion, emphases are put on the importance of civility, seen as the act of respectful engaging with people across deep divisions, for the quality of democracy.
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Authors and Affiliations

Barbara Misztal
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  1. University of Leicester

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