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Option 3 : Only (i), (iii) and (iv)

Civil society is referred as economic interactions, family and kinship systems, religious institutions, cultural organizations, and other facets of human existence that are outside the scope of political power or the state and government. 

  • It is an analytical concept, civil society does not exist without political power and vice versa. 
  • Liberals have used the divide between state and civil society to weaken the absolutist state since the seventeenth century.
  • The concept of civil society is basically a liberal creation but the biggest disputes over its appropriate definition and importance have occurred within Marxism. 
  • According to Gramsci, Civil society belongs to the superstructural sphere rather than the structural sphere. 
  • Two major superstructural levels: Civil society, which is the ensemble of organisms often referred to as private and Political society or the State.
  • Gramsci derived the phrases civil society and political society from Hegel, whom he had studied whereas Marx and Engels did not give such importance to superstructure. 

Thus,  the State cannot be understood without a thorough understanding of the Civil Society, it is in the Civil Society that the struggle for hegemony takes place and he derived the terms Civil Society and Political Society from Hegel are correct statements regarding Gramsci on Civil Society. 

  • Antonio Gramsci was an Italian philosopher and politician who founded the Italian Communist Party and whose ideas substantially influenced Italian communism. 
  • He founded the Italian Communist Party. 
  • In the mid-twentieth century, extracts from Gramsci's jail writings were published for the first time which is known as Quaderni del carcere (Prison Notebooks) appeared in 1975.
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