Sociedad civil, tercer sector y entidades de acción social en España

Abstract

Taking into account the sociological and historical perspective of the civil society concept in contrats to other orders as the natural state, the domestic society, the ecclesiastic or the rude society, these pages are centered basically on the relationships of proximity and synergy between the civil society and the third sector. The result is a mutual support of their spaces of action that is reflected in the growing size of this sector, in the reconstitution of the civil society in an altruistic way as well as in its contribution to the main macroeconomic indicators. On the other hand, this relationship is analyzed taking as reference on exhaustive review of the enpirical studies of the third sector, inside and outside or our frontiers, and an aun investigation applied to the social action entitities in Spain. Taking these refeences, tha ain is to prose if it is certain the high conceptual and methodological disorder of the third sector, and to know if it is overcoming its own failures.