civic

Society

2022

We explain what civics is and some characteristics of this term. In addition, the importance it has in society.

Civic refers to the human conscience linked to respectful behavior.

What is Cívica?

The concept of civics is a term derived from that of citizen, understood as that member of the society that has reached the degree of maturity sufficient to act in accordance with current regulations. In this way, it becomes a adjective that characterizes the persons that comply with a series of guidelines, oriented towards a good coexistence social within a community.

Dictionaries recognize it as an adjective and not as a noun, although it can be heard that way, as an abstract concept that refers to the human conscience linked to respectful behavior with neighbors, or with the institutions and interests of the country.

The expression "fulfill civic duty", which is used colloquially in Argentina to refer to the act of voting, expresses the importance assigned to suffrage in the elections. democracies.

Similarly, civic courage is the courage to fulfill those duties without fear of political retaliation, as well as the civic crown is the one assigned in Ancient Rome to the heroes of war, or the civic booklet is a document that accredited the condition of citizens in some countries of Latin America In the last century.

The family, the tradition and the culture They are fundamental bridges for the acquisition of that civic culture, but at the same time a formalization of this insertion in the sphere of life in society is needed.

Why is civic education important?

Civic education seeks to establish values ​​and ethically correct behaviors.

The existence of a education civic in the fields of study, which transmits, at least, the values ​​that children must acquire to be good citizens. This subject is a compulsory subject in almost all countries in the case of secondary education, and often also in the case of primary education.

Much has been theorized and grounded on civic education, with a great force of what is oriented to favor the recognition and respect of citizens. human rights, as a way to establish the values and the behaviors ethically correct.

In this sense, from the first years of schooling, insists on understanding the dignity of people, of equality in diversity, of freedoms and the responsibilities, and the characteristics of the standards.

Once this knowledge is established, it will be time to think about the question of can, of rights, of the organization of States, of democracy and of citizenship.

Newly acquired all those knowledge (more appropriately called "competencies"), the richest stage in the construction of a civic culture may begin, which is one that allows it to be discussed and rethought: consider the validity of human rights, the role of state In this sense, the behaviors of each individual and of the groups, and the currents of thought that are organized around it.

Civic education generated debates for a long time, since some thinkers (such as Pierre Bourdieu) believe that it only seeks to reproduce some social structures that deepen the inequality, without anything changing the root. In some European countries, where the youth are questioning the political class and are manifesting it through protests, they are also demanding a analysis civic education and a possible reformulation, according to the needs of young people.

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