@article{ref1,
title="The long and winding road: civil repair of intimate injustice",
journal="Sociological theory",
year="2001",
author="Alexander, Jeffrey C.",
volume="19",
number="3",
pages="371-400",
abstract="Over the last decade, I have been trying to help fashion a new kind of critical social theory, one that can contribute to the &quot;new theoretical reflection and interpretation of social contestation and political action&quot; (Cohen 1982:xii) that such post-Marxist thinkers as Cohen and Seyla Benhabib (1986) called for two decades ago but that has seemed less and less ascertainable with the passing of time. Outlining a sociological approach to what I call the &quot;civil sphere&quot; of society, I have defined what I would like to think is a new object domain for sociology, one centering on the expansion and contraction of democratic solidarity. Through a series of conceptual elaborations and empirical investigations, I have begun to sketch out core components of this &quot;civil sphere.&quot; These cultural and institutional components are fundamentally ambiguous, and they form contradictory relations with the &quot;noncivil&quot; domains that surround the civil sphere.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0735-2751",
doi="10.1111/0735-2751.00146",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0735-2751.00146"
}