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Spheres/domains of activity, social relations and social roles
Domestic
arena
Market
arena
Public
arena
State arena
Executive
Legislature
Bureaucracy
Regulators
and law
enforcers
e.g. family,
community
e.g. workplace,
shopping mall
￿ intimacy
￿ friendship
￿ love
￿ etc.
￿ contract
￿ means-end
￿ needs
satisfaction
￿ etc.
￿ membership
of a political
community,
locally and
nationally
￿ public representatives
￿ professionalism
￿ responsibility towards the public
￿ etc.
Relations
and values
involved
Role
of the
individual
Parent, son,
daughter,
lover, friend,
neighbour, etc.
Owner, worker,
employer,
shareholder,
consumer, etc.
Voter, citizen
Public servant
PRIVATE
PUBLIC
Where is the
mass media?
Figure 7.1 The structural characteristics of advanced capitalist democracies (after Habermas, 1989)
 
 
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