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The International Colloquium of Social Sciences and Communication ACUM (NOW) took place in Brasov in between 17th and 19th of October 2019, over three sunny autumn days. The event was organized by the Faculty of Sociology and Communication of the University Transylvania and by the Society of Sociologists of Romania. The keynote speakers were: Bogdan Voicu (R.I.Q.L.) with a communication about migration as a double osmosis, Robbie Gilligan (University of Dublin), with a paper about working with vulnerable young people, Sylvie Huet, (University of Clermond), who investigated the "glass ceilings", and Mihai Burlacu, from the Bucharest Polytechnic, with a reconsideration of the anthropological space as heterotopia. The colloquium organized by SSR is already part of a local university tradition of national and international openness. Slowly but steadily, a real international character of scientific manifestations in Romania is formed, much less cosmopolitan than similar conferences in the global West, but with a constant presence of foreign guests and participants who bring a much needed diversity of perspectives and research themes. During the works, we received a very careful reception from colleagues in sessions that put together various contributions, from long-term individual research topics to recent exploratory research.The event was one that confirmed its success over the years, thus strengthening Brasov's place on the map of social sciences in Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper was written on the occasion of 120 years anniversary since Professor Henry H. Stahl’s birthday. A member of the Sociological School in Bucharest (founded by Dimitrie Gusti), H.H. Stahl became the most important and original Romanian sociologist and historian of the last century. Despite this, the author of the paper emphasizes that his life and activity are not sufficiently known. For this reason, the homage of this scientist must be the beginning of new research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reconstructs the mechanisms through which the work of the French scholar of Romanian origin, Mattei Dogan was brought to light in Romania after 1990 thanks to the eff orts of the community of sociologists. Romanian sociologists used three methods to assimilate the author who is considered the founder of comparative political analysis and who left Romania immediately after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in sociology under Henri H. Stahl supervision: they translated Dogan’s articles and books, they made him a member of prestigious institutions and they included him in the post-communist eff ort to reclaim the legacy of the school founded by Dimitrie Gusti. To capture the institutional and editorial strategies that were used, I conducted interviews with several protagonists of the Romanian sociology renaissance movement. I also used epistolary resources, sociology and political science journals, press articles, as well as documents from the archives of the University of Bucharest and from the Mattei Dogan Foundation. The article shows the success of some methods and the failure of others. It also brings to light a text that was ignored in the studies and bibliographies that discuss the work of the scholar who was born in Roman in 1920 and who went by the name of Matei Pinsler until 1945 (Preda, 2020). This research paper is relevant for various reasons. Firstly, it complements not only the biography of Dogan, but also that of Henri H. Stahl. Furthermore, it highlights the trajectory of a discipline in a period of dissociation with the communist past while restoring the connections with the interwar period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research paper studies the way in which the concepts and methods of Sociology are understood and, eventually, used within the Romanian media and, by extension, within the entire local public space. The data were collected by interacting with one hundred journalists from the central mass-media in Romania. Both quantitative and qualitative methods of research were used, and the balanced conclusions reflect a desynchronization between the professional category of journalists and the one of sociologists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the first part of this review, I describe the concepts used in the book. Next, the paper follows the four periods of institutionalization and evolution of national sociological thinking from a historical and didactic perspective. Each period is characterized by the contributions of its representative authors. In another chapter, the author describes the teaching staff and the graduates from the Faculty of Philosophy, specialization Sociology at the University of Bucharest. Finally, a gallery of sociologists with their achievements is presented. This review captures the value and usefulness of the book for understanding the history of Romanian sociological thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with a paradox: the fact that today Dumitru C. Georgescu - the only researcher that took part in every monographic campaign organized by the sociologist Dimitrie Gusti in rural Romania, in ig2o-ig3o - is practically anonymous. Coming from the Faculty of Medicine (Bucharest), D.C. Georgescu played, in fact, an essential part in the shaping and development of Gusti's theoretical perspective when it came to the „biological frame" of the village. In addition, he was the sole member of the biological team who left written traces of his participation in the campaigns: Georgescu published numerous studies on rural demography, rural morbidity, peasant households, nutrition habits of the peasantry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper is an attempt to reveal Henri H. Stahl's political views and the means by which he managed to work and publish during the Romanian communist regime. We thus uncover a social-democratic sociologist, concerned with the problems of Romania's peasant class, interested mostly in socialist theories of social change and viewing historical materialism as a powerful methodological tool. His political beliefs are anti-bolchevik and his works on the social history of the peasantry challenge Stalin's version of history, reviving the delicate and potentially subversive subject of oriental despotism. Apparently privileged, he in fact strives to overcome the numerous constraints and challenges that he faces during the communist era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a review of Jilava: O radiografi e socială a unui penitenciar (en. Jilava: a penitentiary's social radiography) written by the sociologist PhD Lucian Rotariu. Doing time is a topical subject in the studies conducted by scholars from social disciplines. In his book the roles, norms, social relations and conditions observed in a Romanian prison are analyzed from a sociological perspective. Using a qualitative approach, the author interviewed 38 inmates from Bucharest-Jilava Prison. Following a pointillist perspective, where each social sequence has a place and time in the inside world, the author managed to off er an honest, equidistant and professional study for all the social actors (researchers, practitioners) interested in the prison subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study describes the structure of Traian Brăileanu's work, Introducere în sociologie (Introduction in Sociology), but also the ideas that the Romanian sociologist put forward in this work. He structured his paper into four parts: the notion of sociology, the object of sociology, sociology and the other sciences and the sociological method. In the second part of his study, he focused his interest on the relation between the human being and society, between the structure and functioning of the system in the community. The sociologist from Bucovina seeks to understand the relation between element and system. He attempts to explain the relation between human being and system, stating that humans are involved in a multitude of relations in their world. In this context, the Romanian professor considers that social reality, which is the object of the sociology study, is born out of the contact between communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study's goal is the analysis of the transition epoch on a European scale (16th to 18th century). This moment represents a fundamental step took by the entire European population from North to South and from East to West. A vast collection of events, actions, epistemological orientations and cultural movements with significant impact on the history and existence of national, continental and global communities have been identified and analyzed. This research signals out the theoretical perspectives defining the concepts of culture and civilization, as given by ethnologists, sociologists, culture critics and philosophers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]