Civil society in the discourse dimension

In the article the results of the sociological survey «Civil Society in Understanding of Our Compatriots» are presented. The goal of the sociological study was to demonstrate the understanding of a phenomenon of civil society by the mass consciousness. The analysis of answers didn't allow fixing the correlation between a field of activity of a respondent and his interpretation of a concept of civil society. It should be noted that among the respondents with the negative connotations of civil society there are practically no students. Such data testifies that young people have the youthful optimism or perhaps are under the influence of the modern scientific and educational and a media discourse.