SELF-ORGANIZATION AS THE BASIC FORM OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY GENESIS
SELF-ORGANIZATION AS THE BASIC FORM OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY GENESIS

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to consideration of self-organization as a basic form of civil society genesis. It is noted that the civil society institutions allow citizens to jointly develop goals and achieve them, combining their own efforts, entering into a dialogue with government and public structures, defending their principles. The fragmentation of scientific knowledge about civil society is noted. Such a situation, according to the authors, requires a deeper understanding of the civil society genesis, which is necessary for explaining the problems and contradictions of its formation. Civil society is interpreted, first of all, as the practice of socially solidary life, which is realized in the public sphere of public interactions and communications outside of state-administrative, market, and family-private relations and is represented by a network of non-state voluntary public associations and unions whose activities are self-organized. Self-organization is interpreted as the process of ordering elements of one level of the system due to internal factors, without external influence on the system. It is concluded that the necessary external conditions for the institutionalization of civil society are: the presence of legal forms for the realization of the rights and freedoms of individuals. The authors emphasize that the role of law is to exclude the possibility of negative selforganized institutions (such as totalitarian religious sects, terrorist and others). According to the authors, the phenomenon of quasi-civil society and measures to prevent its formation require detailed study.

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