The contemporary relationship of State and civil society

Abstract

This paper points out some quite tense relationships occurring between State and civil society is sequence of the macro societary transformations as a result of the neo-liberal adjustment imposed by capitalism in peripherals countries. It deals with private and public, with the affirmation of public sphere and individual freedom, an historically built unity, dichotomized by the market logic, with the absence of politics and ethical decomposition. Also, those changes create other directions of State's function and in the dynamics of civil society, among them, the lack of State responsibility in matters of social question, transferring them to, most of times, to civil society' institutions. This attitude damping of social policies and with priority selective social assistance actions focused on the poor population segments.