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Volume 13 of 2023 of the journal Social Analysis contains several contributions on sociology in Romania and Hungary at different moments of evolution during the twentieth century. The first four articles deal with aspects of the activity of the Bucharest Sociological School, while four other contributions concern sociology in Hungary. In several articles there are comparisons between the two sociological movements or references to broader developments in Central and Eastern Europe. If about Romanian sociology we receive only information related to the Monographic School, regarding Hungary the articles have a much wider area: from nationalist sociological concerns at the beginning of the twentieth century, to the reorganization of sociology after the Revolution of 1956 and reaching biopolitical approaches with echoes in contemporary Hungary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present article is based upon information gathered in the Sălaj villages, analyzed from an anthropological point of view. In the old traditional homes, wall carpets (a broadloom carpet on the wall) were fitted instead of paintings, greetings, or words of wisdom. This naïve combination of words and images meant to call to action or to praise speaks of the history of an era, of the evolution of textile techniques and industry, about the unspoken history of women and their place, about sawing and embroidering skills but also about the traditional mentality or the atmosphere in those households – about family, weds, love, cleanliness, hygiene, cooking skills or Christian holydays. We see here a cultural phenomenon that transcends ethnography or the study of traditional fabrics and opens horizons of study in the field of cultural and historical anthropology, sociology, private life history and even interior design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dumitru Cristian Amzăr does not occupy a central place in the sociological school of Bucharest. Nevertheless, his work is very significant for the spirit of the Gusti school but also for the debates of ideas in Romanian interwar sociology. Amzărʼs work reflects the tensions of the era, between the need to modernize Romania and the need to preserve its traditional and communal character. Like other interwar authors, Amzăr looked for landmarks to substantiate his own, Romanian vision of modernization, which does not attack the traditional, identity values of the Romanian people. At this point, his training as a philosopher helped him combine concrete, monographic, field research with a good speculative orientation and philosophy of culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present paper is a synthetic presentation of Petre Andrei's conception regarding the integrality and interdisciplinarity of sociology as a science. Thus, the concept of completeness of sociology is summarized related to the object of study and also as a specific research method in the complex process of sociological investigation of the social life, as a set of components, conditions and types of activities. Also, the notion of the interdisciplinarity of sociology with other socio-human sciences (philosophy, history, psychology, pedagogy) is argued, as it emerges from the work of the Romanian sociologist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on historical sociology, the article sets out to sketch a research project for a so-called “sociology for the present and the futureˮ. This “sociology for the present and the futureˮ seeks to demonstrate the relevance of Henri H. Stahl for the contemporary debate in current Romania which continues to be marked by an institutional vulnerability that one could also run into in interwar Romania, namely, institutional weakness. The general hypothesis of this research project is that the potential postcolonial elements within Stahl’s historical sociology, and also the examination of the local state transformation in the transition process to feudalism, could be used to shed light on the current state of institutional development in Romania. The article puts forward an ideal type of postcolonial thinking against which I explore the potential elements of Stahl’s border thinking. The conclusion that that text comes up with is that elements of postcolonial thinking could be identified in both Stahl’s theoretical sociology and historical sociology. The article places a particular emphasis on Stahl’s epistemological clash with certain Marxist ideas and also the dominant historical narrative of the communist regime. These aspects, however, do not automatically turn Henri H. Stahl into a postcolonial thinker. The article argues that only by exploring both the interwar and postwar intellectual fields in Romania, one could identify if Stahl really belongs – or not – to the tradition of critical sociology in Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This reviewed book is the first authentic document about sociological education between 1966 and 1989 in Bucharest. The testimonies, interviews and analyzes of Sorin Mitulescu and his colleagues describe the unfair employment of young graduates. This was due to the unprofessional preparation of the establishment of sociological education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cătălin Augustin Stoica’s volume Introduction to the Study of Social Stratifi cation and Mobility: theories, measures and models of analysis can be considered a starting point in developing a theoretical understanding of the concepts mentioned in the title. Although the book is mainly addressed to students in the area of social sciences, we can say that the language is widely accessible to the general public. It should be appreciated that the reader does not need a theoretical background before reading the book, as each concept is defi ned and analysed in such a manner, that makes the transition from common knowledge to scientifi c knowledge. Stratifi cation and social mobility could not be dealt with separately, and in order to make intelligible how these concepts are intertwined in the dynamics of social life, the author presents them in a theoretically evolutionary scale. The explanation of the concepts is carried out starting from classics such as Marx and updated to the contemporary era with the help of authors that include Erik Olin Wright. From the conceptual trunk outlined by the theories of the aforementioned authors, sprout the branches of sub-chapters such as ‘Power and Privilege’ or ‘Theories of the Elites’, whose purpose is to broaden the reader’s understanding of the subject. Through his book, Cătălin Augustin Stoica succeeds in offering a new approach to concepts studied for many decades in the field of sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contemporary international turbulence has created a wide range of uncertainty and launched the concept of societal resilience, as a possibility to deal with the turbulences and tectonic changes of the international relations and global security. But how do we measure and how do we enforce the resilience stay remains an important issue for researchers. Therefore we tried to enter into the depth of the resilience studies and approaches and use what we have in hand as studies in sociology, history of conflicts and economic turbulences, geopolitical capability of the states and specially societal security. The paper emphasizes also the main points of a RAND Corporation study on the societal foundation of nations competitiveness as a mean to identify criteria and indicators for societal resilience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The changes brought about by the pandemic affect the most private and personal place in society: the home. One’s residence is currently the environment in which one can perform various professional activities with the help of technology. The digitalization of households brings with it a new responsibility, which involves the realization of a new activity that was not so much studied by sociology: digital domestic work. This article answers three research questions: What are the main digital household tasks performed by members of digitized households? How is digital domestic work organized in a digitized household? and How do members of digitized households relate to digital domestic work? In this qualitative research, I used the method of thematic analysis of social documents. Thus, I analyzed the content of 32 audio-video materials documenting the life of four digitized households. The main results of the study capture the pro-active, active and reactive ways of performing digital domestic tasks. The members of the digitized households that were analyzed, represented by content creators (YouTubers), assume the responsibility of carrying out the digital domestic tasks, which, however, they consider to be optional. The emergence of digital domestic work directly affect the quality of personal and professional activities carried out within the household, and indirectly the technology industry and labor policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

THE ANALYSIS OF SOCIETIES IS A BROAD STUDY OF HUMAN SOCIAL LIFE, AN ENDEAVOR OF GREAT RESPONSABILITY, AS IT AIMS AT THE OUTCOME OF OUR OWN BEHAVIOR IN HUMAN RELATIONS. THIS SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF HUMAN SOCIETIES WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON MODERN INDUSTRIALIZED SYSTEMS, SOCIAL RULES AND PROCESSES THAT BIND OR SEPARATE PEOPLE AS MEMBERS OF GROUPS AND INSTITUTIONS IS DEFINED AS THE SCIENCE CALLED SOCIOLOGY [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Stories are constructed by the common man and implemented as specific to an identity. Currently, we live in a time of personal stories, of experiences, which, shared, can contribute to the preservation, affirmation and even recovery of identity values. In our approach we will describe the triad of ethnography, ethnology, anthropology, which corresponds to clearly dissociated methodological stages. However, the transition from ethnography to ethnology and then to anthropology reveals an increasingly extensive process of generalization and comparison. This evolution leads us from the objective description of a population to a more comparative reflection, and then to an abstract and universal meditation on the becoming of cultures. Life storytelling is largely an interdisciplinary approach, used to understand not only a single life over time, but also how individual lives interact with society. We want to emphasize the power of storytelling and retelling, of composing and recomposing stories, of remodeling and extending it. The life story method is used in multiple research areas. In terms of use in psychology, the story itself can be a valuable text to learn from other people's experiences. The use of the method in sociology can help the researcher to become more aware of the diversity of possible roles and standards that exist within the human community. In anthropology and folklore, life stories highlight issues related to beliefs, values, customs, traditions and meanings of life. In anthropology, this method is used to obtain the shared cultural meanings of the individual, but also the vision of a community member on the dynamics of cultural change. In folklore, the story of life, focuses on the way in which the interviewee sees himself as a keeper of tradition, the holder of traditional teachings, beliefs, customs and practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While focusing exclusively on the merely human dimensions of religious communities and by strongly emphasizing the domination features of the relationship between priests and other charismatic religious leaders and their fol- lowers, Weber accomplishes what was dreamed about the functioning of science as free of all value. However, a value-free sociology of religion misses much of the reality behind the most banal manifestation, namely especially when it excludes the mystical component. In contrast, the history of religion promoted by Eliade is careful enough as not to obliterate what lies at the heart of the religious experience, namely the sacred. With no respect to the sacred that manifests through human acts, values and beliefs, power is the ultimate aspect which one can take into ac- count when looking at any religious community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the content of the cadre file of Henri H. Stahl preserved in the Archives of the University of Bucharest’s Rectorate. In the form in which it has been preserved after 1989, the personnel file of H.H. Stahl seems, from several points of view, atypical. If we compare it with the cadre files of the 1950s, it surprises by the apparent “goodwill” of the communist cadres towards H.H. Stahl. This ideological solicitude is manifested in the interpretation given to main cultural and political events in H.H. Stahl’s life. In other circumstances such political past could be labeled as unusable in a communist context. Equally curious and noteworthy is the issue of the ethnic origin attributed (and not necessarily real or assumed by the one described in the file), more precisely the issue of Stahl’s nationality ( Jewish) which was recorded in the file. Analyzing Stahl cadre file we can wonder if the integrity of this dossier has not been compromised by removing, extracting or modifying documents by the personel staff services or by someone else. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper uses letters – some unpublished – from the mid-1940s and the second half of the 1970s exchanged by Mattei Dogan and Henri H. Stahl, to render the way sociological education was organized at the University of Bucharest immediately after the Second World War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This volume is a surprise-gift offered by the informal research and debate group coordinated by Professor Zoltán Rostás, dedicated to Sanda Golopenția. A prestigious researcher, she is the daughter of the well-known sociologist Anton Golopenția, member of the Bucharest Sociological School. The volume brings together fifty-one studies, pieces of research, archive notes, essays, letters, prose, poems, which the editors have gathered from valued members of the global academic community, with whom Sanda Golopenția has exchanged messages. In this comment I have chosen to focus on several of the diverse interests and passions of Sanda Golopenția (S.G.). She brought significant contributions to linguistics, ethnography, semiotics, theater, sociology, and social history, among others. Among these, I will discuss selected aspects that are highly relevant to the Sociological School of Bucharest and to the activity of her parents, Anton Golopenția and Ștefania CristescuGolopenția, as also highlighted by the study authors. This short list includes: 1) A comprehensive profile of Sanda Golopenția’s life and career, which sheds light on the history of the Bucharest Sociological School; 2) “The Epistolary Rhapsody” – a benchmark achievement within the frame of modern historiography; 3) The reconstruction of a major chapter in the history of sociology, serving as a window towards a “total editorial fact”; 4) The project of interventionist sociology, comprised in the student campaigns of the Social Service in Romanian villages, aiming for the emancipation of the peasantry, which was also a strategic component in the national mass-media of that time; 5) Sanda Golopenția’s personality, serving as an inspirational model for young and aspiring intellectuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on a case-study of a scientific dialogue (or lack of it) between the Marxist sociologist Henri H. Stahl and Romanian historians. The first section of the study, A failed dialogue, examines the various rhetorical strategies used by Henri H. Stahl when addressing an audience of historians. Stahl’s increasingly irritated tone, triggered by what he perceived to be his marginalization by professional historians, seems only partially justified. The reception of Stahl’s studies of historical sociology was heterogeneous, but despite some positive reviews his contributions remained rather overlooked in the field of historiography. The second section of the article, The taxonomy of Romanian historiography, looks at the historians through the lenses of Stahl’s scientific references and late life interviews. Apart from Iorga, to whom Stahl was emotionally and intellectually attached, the sociologist classified Romanian historians in four categories: (1) respected, but out dated; (2) meticulous, but rather thick; (3) pseudo-socialising and dangerous; (4) useful and trans-disciplinary. In the end, Stahl’s growing frustration with Romanian historiography seems to be best explained by his failure to initiate a methodological revolution in the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This book contains a thorough analysis of the way state-budged funds were distributed by the Romanian government during 2017-2020 through The National Program for Local Development (PNDL), the largest state-funded development program, not devoid of controversies. At the intersection of sociology, public administration and public finance, the analysis offers a valuable tool for understanding how the complex funding environment operates at different levels of public administration in Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The book reviewed here is one of the very rare social scientific analyses of flood-induced disasters in Romania. The monograph is a valuable contribution to the Romanian literature in the social sciences, because the author makes a sustained effort to advance a sociological understanding of the disasters tiggered by floods. In this sense, any given flood is not the disaster but only the trigger of a social disaster. The disaster ensues from the ways in which the flood interacts with pre-existing socio-economic and spatial conditions and inequalities. The book is structured into six chapters and an introductory piece. Its appeal is wide ranging and it includes all social scientists interested in flood-induced or climate change-induced disasters. Experts and stakeholders involved in the management of floods or similar systemic hazards would also greatly benefit from reading this informative piece. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Following doctoral studies in sociology, an interesting work has been published on the impact of digital technologies on the commemorative practices of cultural heroes. The book is structured around the analysis of many case studies that help the reader to better understand the new social and cultural contexts of the hereafter. The research author is Dr Ștefania Matei, who carefully analyses the social processes that articulate the posthumous presence and highlights the mutations she observes în practice and the meanings of social immortality due to the influences of digital facilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay tries to capture the essential aspects highlighted by the 50 authors whose the texts are included in the anniversary publication “In honorem Sanda Golopentia”. The authors, who are experts in their respective scientific fields, are addressing the complex work of Sanda Golopentia, whose oeuvre spans six decades and consists of studies of sociology, linguistics, theatre, ethnology and autobiographical testimonies, and which is considered to have “a comfortingly consistent and durable presence within Romanian culture”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nicolae Gheorghe was born in 1946, in Roşiorii de Vede. In 1968, Nicolae entered the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Philosophy from the University of Bucharest. He finished, in 1972, as valedictorian, with an average grade of 10. Since he was hired in 1972 at the Center for Sociological Research, Nicolae has been involved in several research about the Roma, of which we want to mention two: in 1974, the Communist Party launched a research on Roma, which aimed to find out the causes of their marginalization in Romania; and in 1976, he worked on a project aimed at ”social integration of young gypsies”. Most likely, these projects targeting the Roma led Nicolae to take possession of this study about relatives in Glod. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nicolae Iorga is the greatest Romanian historian, and, at the same time, a forerunner of sociology, geopolitics, and political science, among others. Iorga had a huge impact in structuring the modern Romanian society during and after WW 1, being in the same line of influence with Mihai Eminescu. Starting with Nae Ionescu’s analysis on Iorga, we will summarize his contribution in this direction making considerations on his contributions to science, society, war, and politics. Beside his great power of assimilating and synthesizing huge amount of data, Iorga had a profoundly serious contribution to the emergent paradigm of the cultural indigenization imperative of the lag-behind societies like Romania’s. At the end of this paper, in the Appendix, we quote from the Romanian Academy communication related to his 150th birth anniversary. Also in the Annex we give a sample answer to the socalled lack of precision of some of Iorga’s papers – quoting from Nae Ionescu. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article outlines W.E.B. Du Bois’s general sociological theory and literary activity in connection to the recent study of Jose Itzigsohn and Karida L. Brown, The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois. Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line. It describes the role of Double Consciousness and Racialized Modernity within postcolonial and decolonial theory and explains how postcolonial Romanian studies have engaged with postcolonial theory by avoiding these concepts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Author Sebastian Fitzek’s book is the result of constant preoccupations over time for a topic of political anthropology supported by a long period of study and documentation in the field of socio-human sciences. A book that followed a scientific intellectual path of the author for more than 10 years. I know the history of concerns for the subject of this book since 2007, when the author was enrolled in the courses of the doctoral school of sociology at the University of Bucharest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concepts with which the theory of law operates are far from being the result of some philosophical speculations, without any connection with the concrete relations of the social life. Although eminently deductive, the science of law, as a whole, does not operate only deductively, without reference to facts, data of reality. In last analysis, the theoretical constructions formulated by the science of law (or legal sociology) are the result of a succession of inductive and deductive steps. A good knowledge, explanation and interpretation of law (of the legal phenomenon, more broadly) requires an appropriate methodology, based on which to achieve a scientific understanding of the mechanism of the social action of law, its functions, essence, content and form. In the conditions of the current scientific and technological evolution, there are happening profound transformations - of structure, of method, of vision - which determine that also the scientific research go through a fruitful mutation. From this methodological perspective, the author aims to address some essential aspects of the structure of law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The book of Lajos Balázs entitled What makes you feel out of this world. Sexual culture and morality among peasants (Pallas-Akadémia, 2009, 704 pag.) written in Hungarian is an ethnographic survey, a real monography of the topic of sexuality and sexual morality in a village of Eastern Transylvania, Csíkszentdomokos (Sândominic). The topic of the book on the one hand is part of various scientific fields (sociology, sexual-psychology, folkloristics etc.), but it is still a taboo in Romanian culture and it is recently also subject of a public debate about the necessity of sexual education in Romanian schools. On the other hand, there is no other work which tackles with the specific tools of ethnography this topic in such a depth, so it can be considered a really important achievement in the field worth to be translated at least in Romanian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This review seeks to critically unravel Bogdan Bucur's Sociology of Bad Governance in Interwar Romania by using both an emic and an etic approach. From an emic perspective, that is, from inside the book, Bogdan Bucur's intellectual eff ort is really impressive. Despite a huge amount of data, Sociology of Bad Governance in Interwar Romania proves itself quite easy to read thanks to a solid organization. Additionally, due to the fact that the author has employed a classic academic recipe, the abovementioned book is also very coherent. However, looked at it etically, the book loses its internal coherence due to some conceptual and methodological blunders. Conceptually, despite the fact that the book brings to the fore the issue of bad governance and that it includes a theoretical chapter, the concept of good governance is left unaddressed. Methodologically, the author seems to have fallen in the trap of methodological nationalism. A consistent liberal and neo-marxist literature has already addressed the state as a historical institution which is more or less dependent on the international milieu. In his attempt to explain the administrative failures of the interwar Romanian state, the author has completely overlooked the path dependence explanation and the impact former empires had had on post-colonial states. Thus, a confusion between causes and manifestations of bad governance has emerged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Back in 1879 two Romanian Academy's prizes were established for science and literature: "Gheorghe Lazăr" and "Ion Heliade Rădulescu" (www.acad.ro). The prizes of the Romanian Academy "are awarded to Romanian scientists and artists living here or abroad for their contribution (...) to the development of Romanian culture and science" (www.acad.ro). Since 1996, the Romanian Academy is awarding yearly excellence in domains corresponding to its scientific sections: I Philology and literature, II Historical sciences and archeology, III Mathematics, IV Physics, V Chemistry, VI Biology, VII Geonomic, VIII Technical section, IX Agricultural and Forestry section, X Medicine section, XI Economic, juridical and sociology section, XII Philosophy, theology, psychology and pedagogy section, XIII Art, architecture and audiovisual section and XIV Science and technology of information section. Under the section XI Economic, juridical and sociological sciences, two awards are available for Sociology area: "Dimitrie Gusti" and "Henri H. Stahl". This interview is conducted with the winner of "Henri H. Stahl" awarded in 2020. More details on history of these awards as well as guidelines and 1998- 2017 lists are available on https://acad.ro/premiileAR/pag_premii.htm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This short paper is, in fact, a brief presentation of the independent research group the "Gusti Cooperative", which has been investigating, for twenty years, the history of the Sociological School of Bucharest from a social history perspective. In the article a take a critical stance towards the diachronic practice of the history of sociology promoted from the 1960s onwards, advocating, instead, for a synchronic approach to the Gustian phenomenon. Therefore, in this short exploration, I emphasize that it is necessary to continue in-depth research of the contexts in which the School was active, as well as the need for auxiliary tools, while not attempting to make any kind of synthesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present text analyzes some cultural aspects of the master-disciple relationship between Dimitrie Gusti and Mircea Vulcănescu. Insist especially on the topicality of Gustian sociology while taking Mircea Vulcănescu’s receiver. Mircea Vulcănescu’s discipleship starts with the coordination of the bachelor’s degree in sociology by Professor Dimitrie Gusti, and then continues with the writing of other studies. Participation in sociological campaigns field, seminars and sociology conferences will follow afterwards. The present study also has the interpretation that the disciple Mircea Vulcănescu gives to the sociological system of the declared teacher Dimitrie Gusti. The precise references are to the Aristotelian substrate of the relation between possibility and actuality, reflected by Dimitrie Gusti in the relation between cadres and manifestations; to the social will understood as an original expression of the voluntarism of Jean-Jacques Rousseau; to the archetypal character of the four Gustavian cadres; to Gusti's sociological system defined as “system of social philosophy”. In this sense, Dimitrie Gusti's system does not exclude science. On the contrary, it includes it in the sense of “sufficient reason” of all those existing in social life. Finally, I illustrated the importance of the social phenomenology practiced by Mircea Vulcănescu in the field sociological campaigns coordinated by Dimitrie Gusti with two classic examples and one current one. The fi rst two refer to the analysis of a magicoreligious phenomenon (the enchantment) and to the subtleties of the speculative vocation of the Romanian refl ected linguistically. The present example is an attempt, partially original, to interpret in the spirit of the phenomenology proposed by Vulcănescu certain forms of popular culture that illustrate the non-canonical power of evil in Romanian history. At the limit, these fantasies of the efficacy of evil could more deeply explain the suspicion and distrust of Romanians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Homelessness is an issue that affects both men and women regardless of age, race, sexual or political orientation, or other characteristics. Also, this phenomenon is studied in various fields such as sociology, social work, urban geography, anthropology, many researches being focused on homeless men or homeless people in general. However, we can talk about invisible homeless women taking into account that they are more likely to use their domestic and sexual roles as survival strategy to avoid living on the streets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The volume edited by Adela Hîncu and Victor Karady, Social Sciences in "Other Europe" since 1945, is one of the most expected volume on the historiographic "market". The volume brings together several studies dedicated to the evolution and development of the social sciences in the communist bloc. Thus, we can see a series of case studies pertaining to Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia. The main thesis is that even if there was a unitary model of ideology, adopted along with the establishment of communist regimes, there were different processes in the evolution of the regimes within each state. And in this process, the social sciences played different roles: from creating a resistance to political control, to negotiating or defining the legitimacy of the regimes. But each state approached the issue differently, and internal party conflicts, as well as East-West dynamics, characteristic of the Cold War, led to unexpected transformations in the field of social sciences, as well as changes of the relations of power and of the social and political roles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The monograph Gender Stereotypes in Contemporary Russian Society analyzes the mechanisms that produce and transform gender types and how these stereotypes interact with political-economic discourse. The author presents original sociological research to demonstrate how gender stereotypes have evolved in the discursive realms of politics, economics, and the family in contemporary Russia of the past twenty years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present review aims to present to the interested readers the main points underlying the book Well-being seen through the eyes of the Romanian children: the results of the international study "Children's Worlds" (ISCWeB), written by two professors of the University of Oradea, Department of Sociology - Social Assistance. Part of a research conducted internationally, the study aims to contribute to increasing the well-being of children and to support their participation in solving problems directly affecting them. In order to achieve this double objective, three questionnaires adapted to the ages of 8, 10 and 12 years were elaborated, which tried to cover the most important areas of their life. The results obtained from the undertaken study are valuable and useful to the approach regarding improving the quality of life of children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This presentation refers to the conference Population Studies. Challenges and Prospects, organized at the Babeş-Bolyai University, Centre for Population Studies, on June 1st-2nd 2019. The conference aimed to provide a retrospective overview on population research drawing from various disciplines (history, historical demography, demography, sociology, human geography, economy, medicine, etc.), as well as an opportunity for researchers to discuss the role of population studies in informing public policies that address issues of contemporary population, such as population ageing, migration, low fertility, etc. The 21 papers that were presented during the two days of the conference, situated in the field of social history, historical or contemporary demography, unraveled a wide array of topics and historical periods and employed various methodological approaches. A special focus was awarded to migration and its consequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The text aims at emphasizing the tradition and evolution of the academic sociology of Iaşi, tracking its origins. Thus, we tried to focus upon the emblematic personalities who contributed to the development of sociology in Iaşi (Constantin Dimitrescu-Iaşi, Constantin Leonardescu, Dimitrie Gusti, Petre Andrei, Vasile Miftode), dwelling on the ideas and themes outlined or developed by them at the Iaşi school of sociology. Our approach went even further, purporting to emphasize the professional competences and publications of the new generation of sociological thinkers in Iaşi, especially as authors of volumes. This approach, which is part of a history of sociology in Iaşi, shows that sociology at „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University has had an outstanding evolution and a unique tradition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Violence is a key feature of human social relations, yet it has received comparatively little attention from social scientists. With increasing levels of conflict and violence in the modern world, we started an anthropological research to find the origins and aspects of violence in politics. By studying the writings of great philosophers such as Kant, Hegel, Hume, and Marx we found that there is a confusion between the notions of authority and violence, and that this is the main fault that guided centuries of political thinking. These writings have cultivated certain types of politicians and of ways for accepting the abuse up until present days and it is therefor necessary to point the difference between them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The book of Gyula Lencsés entitled English Researchers in the Bakony Wald. The History and Documentation of the 1937 Field Work of the Institute of Sociology in Dudar, Hungary, is important for three reasons. First it reveals how a sociological institute in Great Britain functioned in the interwar period, secondly, it presents an important slide of the Hungarian sociology in the same period, and thirdly this book is important from the perspective of social history as it reconstructs all the results of the fieldwork realized in Dudar village. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It was immediately after the Second World War that the costume from Maramureș and Oaș regions drew the attention of the specialists in ethnography and traditional art. In the same period, Romanian nationalism reclaimed the value of this traditional costume. Until the instauration of the communist regime, the profile of the peasant from these two regions was vague and partially unknown to the Romanian intellectuals. The first part of the study is concerned with the role of the male's costume in the Romanian protochronist discourse. I demonstrate how it evolved from a hazy image emerging during the 19th centruy, to a hypothetic and falsified „Dacian costume" able to contribute to the Romanian nationalist discourse during Ceaușescu's rule1. In the next three sections of the paper I refer to the design and the evolution of this costume, emphasizing the local, unique and differentiating elements. I particularly insist on the attire' elements that were borrowed from different ethnic gropus and various geographic areas which finally had an influence on the Maramureș and Oaș Romanian costume. In the first section of this paper I took into consideration the effects of the contemporary emigration phenomenon in Oas area on the evolution of the traditional male costume. One of the consequences of migration is - perhaps paradoxical - that this local costume does not disappear, but adapts to the contemporary world, evolves and specializes more and more strictly, becoming a ceremonial costume by excellence. The next two chapters are a reconstruction of what the "recent man's suit" and the "old man's costume" meant, highlighting the parallels, influences, takeovers and morphological similarities between the Romanian costume of Oas and Maramures and that of the Slovaks, Ruthenians, Hungarians, Serbians and Croatians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sociologist Constantin Schifirneţ is a researcher who constantly draws attention on studies and advanced ideas. Lately, the same thing happened with Tendential Modernity. Reflections about modern evolution of society (Tritonic Publishing House, Bucharest, 2016, 199 p.). Through the proposed perspective, but also by the depth of the research, we consider this paper as a work of reference, especially since the ideas that generated it are the result of long reflections on modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ethics, a philosophical discipline, formulates a set of principles that must be followed, in respect of good and truth, fundamental values of humanity. The world of scientific research, of all kinds, also obeys moral imperatives and principles and is called upon to answer to society not only in relation to the discoveries themselves but, above all, in relation to the possible destructive effects on man or his life environment. The researcher in the sphere of social sciences is more involved in the act of responsibility, the more the topic subject of the study is the individual, the social group, the social environment. He must rigorously follow the principles and requirements of fair, honest, objective studies that do not harm the dignity of the human being. In line with the ethical rigors of scientific research, the article aims to highlight some aspects of respecting the principle of confidentiality and anonymity in qualitative research in the field of sociology, with reference to the study of vulnerable groups in Arad County. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper assesses the intellectual profile of Romanian ethnologist Mihai Pop, from the doublefold perspective of theoretical thinking and institutional work in his field. Lettered in Russian Formalism and Czech Structuralism during the inter-war period, Mihai Pop managed to accomplish his formation in a remarkable structuralist-semiotic setting in postwar Romania, in a theoretical stance which remained singular in Romanian research during communism and acquired a well-deserved international recognition. Among others, this stance enabled Mihai Pop to rebuild the domain of Romanian Folklore studies, after the 1948 education reform, and safeguard the field against ideologization, which was about to return in full force after 1971 and after his 1975 retirement . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBES THE TERM AND CONCEPT OF SERENDIPITY AND THEIR ROLE IN MAKING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. SERENDIPITY CAN BE EXPLAINED AS AN ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERY OF A PHENOMENON WHEN TRYING TO FIND / EXPLAIN ANOTHER PHENOMENON. SERENDIPITY AND CAN MEAN ACCIDENTAL LEARNING. THE WORD SERENDIPITY IS CONSIDERED TO BE "PLEASANT SURPRISE", "HAPPY ACCIDENT", LUCKY MISTAKE. SO, INADVERTENTLY, OR SEARCHING SOMETHING, FIND SOMETHING GOOD OR USEFUL. ESSENTIALLY, THE SERENDIPITY MEANS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING AND FIND SOMETHING ELSE (USEFUL). IT TRIES IN THIS ARTICLE TO GIVE ANSWERS TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: IT MUST TO RECOGNISE THE ROLE OF THE SERENDIPITY THAT INVOLVES ANOTHER WAY TO TEACH AND TO DO RESEARCH? BY SERENDIPITY CAN BE DISCOVERED THE SIGNIFICANT FACTS FOR TO INITIATE THEORY RESEARCH. SERENDIPITY APPEARS AS A NORMAL PHENOMENON (IS ENCOUNTERED IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES) THAT KEEPS CHANGING; THUS, A NUMBER OF FACTORS CONTRIBUTE DIRECTLYOR INDIRECTLYTO THE EMERGENCE OF THIS PROCESS: CHANGING THE SUBJECT DURING THE RESEARCH, WHICH OCCURS DUE TO DIRECT TECHNIQUE FOR THE STUDY OF THE PHENOMENON OF INDUCTION GENERATED DURING RESEARCH, RESTRUCTURING THE SOCIAL FIELD INITIALLY BY THE PRESENCE RESEARCHER OR DUE TO THE RESEARCHER'S PERSONALITY AND AWARENESS OF THE SOCIAL RESEARCH SUBJECTS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study tries to evaluate the impact of the Sociological School of Bucharest, created by Dimitrie Gusti and Henri H. Stahl, on the Romanian interwar writers. The social program of this national instituution and its scientific agenda have as main objective a mobilisation of the young intellectual elites and a social mapping of the country. From this point of view, the documentary films, the sociological reports and the museological reenactements shall be regarded as some identity mapping tools. The common denominator of this enterprise is defined by the ethic social engagement, by the authenticity of the experience, and also by the realist attitude of the monographs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Răzvan Enache’s book - Public relations from the sociological point of view - is written in a sober yet playful register, as a sign of protest against the conceptual inaccuracies which aim the Public Relations and, implicitly, the communication sciences. Răzvan Enache’s essay is built on a vigorous critical source and replaces the short-sighted judgements upon the science of communication, which is too often compared to the so called academic discussion or to the small or big chit-chat. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]