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The article offers a look at Romanian sociological publications in the 1970s. An article by Ioan I. Matei, published in the Revue Internationale de Sociologie provides a summary discussion of rural sociology in Romania. Industrialization and urbanization, expansion of education and the rule of the Romanian Communist Party have been among the most significant social changes in Romania during the 1950s-1970s. In Factori Sociali, Honorina Cazacu's multivariable analysis of human motivation deserves special mention because workers' behavior was analyzed, for the most part, in term of political orientation and not in terms of human motivation. A second category of sociological publications during 1970 and 1971 deals with educational issues. The last category, political sociology, appears to lack empirical investigations. For example, since nationalism and nation has been significant in his theoretical reflections in Eseuri despre Natiune. Contributii la Sociologica Culturii de Masa edited by M. Cernea and Structura Procesului Cultural de Mesa edited by Haralamb Culea concentrated on different media of mass communication as well as on different audiences in smaller communities. France of the influence of French sociology is manifested in Sociologica Franceza Contemporana edited by Ion Aluas and Ion Dragan.