Conceptual Understanding of Civil Society and its Contemporary Usage

The purpose of this research study was to understand the concept of civil society and explain how it was conceptually perceived and defined by various theorists and international organizations. As the term civil society itself was complex to define however, this study identified some important features of civil society association by analyzing different understandings of thoughts. This study also discussed critical account of the Marxist tradition on this notion of civil society. In the end, contemporary usage of civil society was mentioned where it presented a close relation with modern democracy. Qualitative and descriptive method was used for this research paper. For that, theoretical aspect of concept was taken into consideration.