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While in part overlapping in empirical focus and theoretical concerns, social movement studies and civil society studies have grown apart from each other. Besides conceptualizing objects which are at least in part different, the two fields of studies have also focused on different normative and theoretical concerns. Both are plural fields, with different and contrasting approaches in each. While social movement studies developed from attention to conflicts, considered as positive movers of society, civil society studies stressed the emergence of an autonomous sphere of activities, separated from the state and the market. In this, the two fields of studies tend to present different conceptions of democracy: social movement studies stress the virtues of conflict, whereas civil society studies focus on the virtues of an autonomous sphere between the state and the market.
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della Porta, D. (2014). Democratization from Below: Civil Society versus Social Movements?. In: Beichelt, T., Hahn-Fuhr, I., Schimmelfennig, F., Worschech, S. (eds) Civil Society and Democracy Promotion. Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291097_7
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