New approaches to the concept of civil society: from civil society to the control society

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Oscar Useche Aldana

Abstract

The author traces the origins of "The Civil Society", in the notion of modernity and of the profound crisis that is currently going through. It is suggested that today's society faces political and social areas that have been transformed as a universal space, as it is known today. Foucault had already analyzed this. He had pictured a civil society based on discipline and producer of intricate normalization schemes. The question that is developed in this article is whether the socialization of institutions is currently in a transition that integrates them to projects of social control or if it's beyond the rediscovering of its democratic potential.

Author Biography

Oscar Useche Aldana, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios

Economista, Magíster en lnvestigación Social lnterdisciplinaria, con estudios de Doctorado en Paz, Conflictos y Democracia. Director del Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Humanas y Sociales (CEIHS) de UNIMINUTO. Directorde la Revista Polisemia.