Chapter 13 Self-grading Quizzes

Civil Society and Development
. Scholars in the sociological tradition see civil society as ________.

. The liberal notion of civil society is fundamentally concerned with ________.

. Civil society does NOT ________.

. The idea of civil society achieved prominence in connection with successive waves of democratization that began in ________.

. ________ did NOT lead to a reinvention of the concept of development in 1948.

. The distinction made in the text between social movements and non-governmental organizations applies to the ________.

. In the 1980s, civil society ________.

. The anti-globalization movement in the North has typically been based in ________.

. The following is NOT one of the forms social organizations generally take: ________.

. ________ are CSOs that have the greatest potential for constituting themselves as "actors" in the development process.

. Social change can be analyzed in three dynamic factors: ________.

. The Landless Workers' Movement (MST) in Brazil is an example of ________.

. According to the text, the most challenging problem with the term "civil society" is that it is________.

. Social movements are generally concerned with disputing ________.

. Development means a combination of improvements in the quality of people's lives marked by ________.

. The prominence of the concept of civil society _____________

. Civic organizations potentiality ______________

. For liberal civil society discourse ________________

. The liberal tradition is fundamentally concerned with ____________

. Civil society can be seen as ___________ from a sociological point of view

. The World Bank and other international development associations and agencies __________

. Civil Society can be defined as _____________

. Civil society works ____________

. One of the possible forms that civic society organization can take is ____________

. Interest groups or class-based organizations ______________

. The neoliberal economic model based on free-market capitalism in Latin America was and continues to be extremely successful.

. Prior to 1980, political scientists thought that democracy was essential for economic development.

. Civil society can be viewed as a kind of privatization.

. Civil society or non-governmental organizations are generally class-based in their actions.

. Case studies show that an investor's willingness and ability to work with governments and local communities from the outset is paramount for successful project completion.

. The anti-globalization movement in the North has been directed against the neoliberal policies of government.

. The reign on untrammelled free-market capitalism over the past three decades has produced mass poverty.

. Poverty is the product of the same policies and the same system that generated a very unevenly distributed wealth.

. The anti-globalization movement in the North was based in the major urban centres and was rooted in the working class.

. The spread of democracy, as an idea and value, in recent years has not changed the political and institutional environment in which civil society organizations operate

. Critics argue that the way in which the concept of social capital is used has a demobilizing effect on the dynamics of radical change.

. By 1990, very few countries were aligned to this "new world order" of "globalization" and free-market capitalism.

. The strength of civil society is usually measured in terms of the resulting social fabric.

. The liberal tradition of civil society is fundamentally concerned with the political parties' involvement in the development of the country.

. In the international co-operation for development, civil society is viewed as an array of social organizations representing "stakeholders" in a process of economic development.

. The idea of civil society has achieved prominence over the past two decades in connection with successive waves of democratization that began in Latin America and eastern Europe.

. Civil society has been widely seen as an agent for augmenting the reach of authoritarianism

. Civic organizations play a role in the reconsideration of the limits of government intervention in economic affairs and related neoliberal attacks on the state.

. The construction of a civil society discourse takes different stages but only one form.

. Civil society, from a sociological viewpoint, is rooted in the Anglo-American tradition of liberal democratic theory

. The state-society sees civil society as a repository of popular resistance.

. Civil society is also viewed as an array of social organizations representing "stakeholders" known as NGOs.

. Civil society is generally viewed as an agent for an exclusive form of development and a strategy designed to empower the rich.

. Definitions of "civil society" are diverse, rooted in alternative social and political philosophies that are easy to reconcile.

. Civil society thus includes all manner of social organizations formed in the space between the family and the state.

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