Question

8. Read the given paragraph and write a short note on it.
An important change that did happen in this period was that gradually the private and the
public spheres of life began to become separate the public sphere meant the area of
govemment and of formal religion; the private sphere included the family and personal religion.
The individual had a private as well as a public role. He was not simply a member of one of the
"three orders'.​

Answer 1

The private sphere is the complement or opposite to the public sphere. The private sphere is a certain sector of societal life in which an individual enjoys a degree of authority, unhampered by interventions from governmental or other institutions. Examples of the private sphere are family and home.

In public-sphere theory, on the bourgeois model, the private sphere is that domain of one's life in which one works for oneself. In that domain, people work, exchange goods, and maintain their families; it is therefore, in that sense, separate from the rest of society