Any country includes civilsociety. The concept and structure of such a society is a system of relations that take place outside the state and public institutions, which gives a person opportunities to exercise his civil rights and expresses the various needs and interests of each member of society.
The structure of civil society consists offollowing components: political parties, political and social movements, business societies, consumer unions, charity foundations. Cultural and scientific communities, sports organizations, political clubs, independent media, church, family.
In addition, the structure of civil society has its own characteristics:
- the presence of private entrepreneurs;
- great development and ramification of democracy;
- protection of the rights of all citizens;
- an established plank of the level of culture of the population.
Civil society exists, relying on several basic principles:
- equality of all people in politics;
- guarantee of legal support and protection of the rights of citizens, based on the adopted laws that are legally binding in the world community;
- economic freedom of individuals, which is based on the right of any person to own property or receive monetary remuneration for labor activity;
- the ability of citizens to unite in groups, parties in accordance with professional characteristics and preferences, supported by law;
- the creation of the required material and otherconditions for the development of areas of science, culture and education, forming citizens as free, honest, cultural, highly moral and responsible to the members of society established by law;
- freedom to create and follow media activities without establishing state censorship;
- the existence of a mechanism that balances the relations between the state and society, and also ensures the safety of the activities of the members of the latter by the state bodies.
The structure of civil society and the statecombined by multiple links. The state performs managerial and mediation functions in the life of members of society, it should not come into contact with the values and institutions of citizens, but with the help of a system of horizontal ties it covers all spheres of social relations. In addition, a large number of social elements and institutions has a small position, only slightly intertwined with the structures of the state, as well as with civil society. The main example is the ruling political party, which was created from the depths of society, but at the same time has a close relationship with the state administration. Thus, civil society and the state are closely interrelated, making up two parts of one social organism.
Civil society cannot be considered an aggregateindividuals who consider anarchy to be the law of their life. This is a certain form of community of people, including the totality of their organizations, which ensure the joint material and spiritual existence of citizens, satisfying their desires and needs. The state is the official expression of society, that is, political being. The elements of civil society are people, and the structure of civil society includes the sphere of realization of the individual and collective interests of these people. And the state, in turn, is a sphere for the expression of common interests. The demands of civil society must necessarily be satisfied by the will of the state in order to establish its universal value later in the form of laws.
