Strong and Vigorous Civil Society for Democracy

A strong and vibrant civil society is essential element for thr the smooth functioning of democracy. ‘Democratic governance is strengthened not weakened when it faces a vigorous civil society’[1] It has a responsible role in improving governance and protecting human rights. Civil society can helps to prepare citizens to fulfill their civic obligations as well as to exercise their rights.

George Harber Mead: Mind Self and Society

According to George H. Mead in his book `Mind Self and Society` We have presented the self from the side of experience; it arises through cooperative activity; it is made possible through the identical reactions of the self and others. In so far as the individual can call out in his own nature these organized responses and so take the attitude of the other toward himself, he can develop self-consciousness, a reaction of the organism to itself. On the other hand, we have seen that an essential moment in this process is the response of the individual to this reaction which does contain the organized group, that which is common to all, that which is called the "me". If individuals are so distinguished from each other that they cannot identify themselves with each other, if there is not a common basis, then there cannot be a whole self present on either side (George H. Mead, 1934).