Governing Society Today: Editors' Introduction
- 1 November 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Alternatives: Global, Local, Political
- Vol. 29 (5) , 483-494
- https://doi.org/10.1177/030437540402900501
Abstract
The article presents information about governing societies as a developing notion in the contemporary social sciences. The notion of governing society has for a long time seemed selfevident. Society was conceived as a totality coincident with a certain space, a territory, and occupied by a population. Governing was undertaken by a unified agency that acted upon the society of which it was also a specialized part, the government, or, more broadly, "the state." The notion of "governing society" thus referred unproblematically to the binary of state and society.12 page(sKeywords
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