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The essence of civil society differs from the public and the private sectors. While the public sector is characterized by the concepts of power, authority, legitimacy and democracy, the concepts typical of the private sector are markets, competition, profits, customer ship and consumerism. Civil Society is, for its part, characterized by citizens' spontaneity and activeness, participation and doing, public utility and anatomy, voluntariness and optionality, layman ship and professionalism, flexibility and independence, communality and locality, ethnics and solidarity. In civil society, citizens organize activities and services for themselves and other people out of their own hopes and premises. Fundamentally, civil society has no requirements from the outside, as is the case with the private sector. The actors of civil society decide themselves what kind of activities they engage in, although the financers have begun to participate in the defining process more in the last fe...