Associate Professor, Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Tashkent Institute of Railway Engineers (Doctor of Science), Uzbekistan
New conceptual horizons allow us to revise existing approaches to the analysis of relations between society and the state and analyze them in the context of systemic socio-economic and political processes. Thus, this article pursues two goals: on the one hand, to describe the main approaches and arguments explaining the development of civil society and democracy, and to show their relationship with system theories that describe socio-economic and political processes in various societies; on the other, to analyze the scientific literature and show research prospects. The solution of these problems will make it possible to demonstrate the explanatory power of the concepts of civil society for understanding social processes, as well as determine the factors that influence the development of the phenomenon itself.
Civil Society, Democracy, Social Trust, Interest, Democratization, Theoretical Approaches, Values, Tolerance
