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The paper presents the book of Henri H. Stahl, The Technique of the Sociological Monograph (1934) and delineates the author’s main achievements within the fieldwork methodology from the point of view of Romanian ethnology and folklore studies. As an important member of the interwar sociological school of Bucharest led by D. Gusti, Stahl was thoroughly interested in developing a comprehensive research methodology ready to be applied by the new members of the large research teams of the monographic campaigns. His method includes the attention devoted to getting in touch with the life of the village and the peasants while building psychological trust and empathy between interviewer and interviewee; this complex protocol of accommodation proves to be one of the first and the most sympathetic strategy in the history of anthropological fieldwork. Another aspect of primary interest in Stahl’s methodology is the fact it is drafted simultaneously with the development of peasant studies and rural sociology in the U.S., and the challenges that western anthropology faces in having to adapt its methods to studying peasant societies. Though Stahl often opposes in his studies the sociological school and the Romanian folklore studies, his contribution to Romanian folklore research was undoubtedly acknowledged and appreciated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper it is a subjective perspective on the birth and the raise of the field of Gender Studies in Romania. It is subjective because the author is the initiator of the field and she has a parental/maternal attitude towards the topic. Once her intellectual maternity is related to the MA program at National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest, the text is offering a reflective image of the evolution and the results of the research in the last decades at NSPSPA, as well as its impact beyond the academic space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses an important period in the existence of the Bucharest Sociological School-the preparations for an international congress of sociology, which was eventually cancelled because of the beginning of World War II. The author shows that the process of preparing this event planned for the end of August 1939 re-launched the sociological monographic research of Romanian villages, while also mobilizing an unprecedented number of sociologists for the congress. The fact that a part of the papers sent were published in advance left the impression that the meeting did actually take place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the American presence in two journals of the Bucharest School of Sociology, as well as the information provided in these journals with regard to the American sociological models and their evolution. The data reviewed demonstrate not only a strong academic connection, but also an active cooperation and consistent exchange of academic knowledge between the two countries. The paper builds on a quantitative study of the full archives of the two journals - Arhiva pentru Ştiinţa şi Reforma Socială (Archive for Science and Social Reform) and Sociologie Romanească (Romanian Sociology); its final part is dedicated to the Romanian monographic activity of the U.S. sociologist Ph. Mosely. The conclusion is that the development of the Romanian school of sociology was in line not only with what was happening in the greatest schools of sociology in Europe, but also with the theoretical developments of the American sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considered as the founding father of Romanian sociology, Dimitrie Gusti's name is fundamentally connected with this discipline's evolution in our country. Through his mentorship attitude and reformatory vision, through his influence on his disciples and the institutions he created, through all actions of social interventions he proposed and all ideological positions he promoted and also through his administrative and political functions Dimitrie Gusti became one of the interwar public figures that influenced deeply the Romanian society from that period. This paper shortly reviews all article included in a thematic item of "Sociologie Românească" (Romanian Sociology) journal entitled "Dimitrie Gusti in the socio-political Romanian thinking". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to outline a series of connections and changes of paradigm regarding cinematographic representations of the Romanian Revolution, as they are reflected in two Romanian feature films that deal with this topic: Videograms of a Revolution (Andrei Ujică & Harun Farocki, 1992) and 12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2006). This comparison allows for a broader analysis with multiple theoretical territories in view: media theories (television as a concept and as a medium plays a major role in both films), post- and anticommunism and the memory of Revolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]