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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]

This paper is aiming to highlight the connection that exists in terms of values and principles between the general domain of social work, its narrow branch of criminal justice social work and the field of probation. The first part of the article is related to the Anglo-Saxon tradition, especially USA and Great Britain, where the origins of social work and probation could be found and where these have been consecrated in modern version. This part tracks the evolution of values and principles by means of milestone events, meaningful for a historical perspective, which helps on identification of certain periods of changes in the value basis. In the second part of the article, the analysis moves on Romanian context in order to identify the way in which the values and principles rise and find their identity in social work and probation, as well as the measure in which these values and principles have been superimposed and have been transposed into practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]