Any country includes civil society. The concept and structure of such a society is a system of relations occurring outside the state and public institutions, which gives a person the opportunity to exercise his civil rights and expresses the various needs and interests of each member of the society.
The structure of civil society consists of the following components: political parties, political and social movements, business associations, consumer unions, and charity funds. 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;
- The established level of the level of culture of the population.
Civil society exists, relying on several key principles:
- equal rights of all people in the field of politics;
- a guarantee of legal support and protection of the rights of citizens, based on adopted laws that have legal force in the world community;
- economic freedom of individuals, which is based on the right of any person to own property or receive monetary compensation for labor activity;
- the ability of citizens to join groups, parties in accordance with professional characteristics and preferences, supported by law;
- the creation of the required material and other conditions with the aim of developing the fields of science, culture and education, forming citizens as free, honest, cultural, moral and responsible members of the society established by law;
- freedom for the creation and subsequent activities of the media without establishing state censorship;
- the existence of a mechanism that balances relations between the state and society, and also ensures the security of the activities of the latter by state bodies.
The structure of civil society and the state is united by multiple ties. The state carries out managerial and intermediary 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 public relations. In addition, a large number of social elements and institutions have an insignificant position, only a little intertwined with state structures, as well as with civil society. As the main example, we can cite the currently ruling political party, which was created from the bowels of society, but at the same time has a close relationship with the state administration apparatus. Thus, civil society and the state are closely interconnected, making up two parts of one social organism.
Civil society cannot be considered the totality of individuals 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 an official expression of society, that is, political being. Elements of civil society are people, and the structure of civil society includes the sphere of realization of individual and collective interests of these people. And the state, in turn, is a sphere for expressing common interests. The requirements of civil society must necessarily be satisfied by the will of the state in order to subsequently establish in the form of laws its universal significance.