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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]

The unprecedented global technical and economic progress where the United States of America holds supremacy, imposed, in the process of globalization, the necessity of accepting a single language English as means of communication. As a result of the contact with the English language, Romanian current vocabulary has been undergoing, for more than two decades, significant transformations due to the massive borrowing of English words, some meant to fill lexical gaps particularly in the field of economics. These loanwords of English origin did not bring any change upon the grammar structure of the Romanian language but, nevertheless, they cannot be disregarded or overlooked. The present paper brings into discussion the issue of the importance English loanwords had upon the Romanian business vocabulary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article tries to highlight the main characteristics of the council manager form of government, as it presents itself in the American administrative system. This effort is made in the context in which the Romanian authorities have created an administrative function that is supposed to replicate the American city manager: the Public Administrator. Such an analogy is impossible to be made in the absence of a clear view of what city manager means and this insufficiency is what the paper tries to remediate, given the scarcity of information regarding this problem that exists in the Romanian literature. Among the approached issues are: the political-administration dichotomy, the relationship between the city manager and the main local political actors, the efficiency of the system and also the possible typologies of city managers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]