civic culture
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcivicandculture
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civic
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈsɪv.ɪk/us/ˈsɪv.ɪk/
of a town or city or the people who live ...
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culture
noun
uk/ˈkʌl.tʃər/us/ˈkʌl.tʃɚ/
the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a ...
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(Definition ofcivicandculturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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So too is the physical form of the city including its architecture and its political and social life including aspects ofcivicculture.
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Societies at all social levels argued that their activities were indispensable tocivicculture.
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It is these 'eclectic' discourses that feed the city'scivicculture: those ceremonies, customs and codes that delineate appropriate public behaviour.
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Significantly, neither 'trust' nor 'civicculture' appear in their index.
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This perspective allows one to integrate modernization-based explanations andcivicculture-based explanations of democratization under a common theoretical umbrella.
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Civicculture, on the other hand, is where progress and innovation took hold.
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On the one hand, the accurate measurement ofciviccultureis highly debatable.
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Iscivicculturethe outcome of subjective endeavour - the virtue of individuals - or of wise design of institutions?
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This is an aspect of a 'civicculture' which motivates individuals to become involved in politics primarily for altruistic reasons.
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From this perspective, modernization-based andcivicculture-based explanations of democratization are manifestations of the same theme: the expansion of autonomous human choice.
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How great were the changes after 1900 tociviccultureand identity remains keenly debated, if comparatively underexplored.
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In one sense, it is (at least in part) comprised of the buildings and spaces of a town'scivicculture, together with its symbolic value.
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Yet to date the norms for a stableciviccultureand civil society have yet to be formed.
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The key preconditions are national unity, a decent level of social well-being, free markets,civiccultureand independence from external constraints.
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Post-occupancy involves not simply efficiency, comfort or aesthetics, it ultimately involvescivicculturein history.
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Thus changes to chieftaincy andcivicculturethat occurred during the colonial period came on top of already existing patterns of change.
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The difference in 'civicculture' between the regions is presupposed, not explained.
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The 'civicculture' literature also tended to understate the potential significance of social conflict.
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