- Incivility
"Incivility" is a general term for social behaviour lacking in civility or good
manners , on a scale from rudeness or lack ofrespect for elders, tovandalism andhooliganism , through publicdrunkenness and threatening behaviour. [cite web|url=http://www.askoxford.com/results/?view=dict&freesearch=incivility&branch=13842570&textsearchtype=exact|work=AskOxford |title=Definition of 'Incivility'|accessdate=2006-11-25] The word "incivility" is derived from the Latin "incivilis", meaning "not of a citizen". [cite book |editor=Catherine Soanes, Angus Stevenson (Eds.)|title=The Oxford Dictionary of English (revised edition)|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2005]The distinction between plain rudeness, and perceived incivility as threat, will depend on some notion of 'civility' as structural to society; incivility as anything more ominous than bad manners is therefore dependent on appeal to notions like its antagonism to the complex concepts of
civic virtue orcivil society . It has become a contemporary political issue in a number of countries [cite web|url=http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/001136.php|title=Incivility in Political Discourse (The Coming Apogee of the Moonbat Hordes)|work= [http://www.indcjournal.com/ InDC Journal] |accessdate=2006-11-25|date=2004-10-13] .ee also
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Abuse
*Anti-social behaviour
*Anti-Social Behaviour Order
*Delinquent
*Deviant behavior
*Folk devil
*Harassment
*Hooliganism
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*Juvenile delinquency
*"Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation "
*Yobbo Notes
References
* Digby Anderson, editor (1996) "Gentility Recalled: Mere Manners and the Making of Social Order"
* Stephen L. Carter (1998) "Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy", Basic Books, 1998, ISBN 978-0465023844
* P. M. Forni, "Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct", St. Martin's Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0312281182
* Judith Martin, "Miss Manners: A Citizen's Guide to Civility", ISBN 978-0609801581
* "Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace"
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