Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology Review)
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Realizări actual în sociologia mediului, Simpozion, Wondschoten, Olanda, 17-20 iunie 1992
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„Societatea bună” o nouă provocare pentru sociologie: “The Good Society” a New Challenge for Sociology
No full textAccess to Higher Education. A Review of the Literature with a Focus on Central and Eastern Europe: Access to Higher Education. A Review of the Literature, with a Focus on Central and Eastern Europe
No full textThe article is reviewing the mainstream literature on the issue of expansion of higher education and the evolution of inequalities of access in tertiary cycle, with a special concern for the case of Central and Eastern Europe, and for two cases which are rarely considered together in the literature, those of Romania and Hungary. Cross cohort investigation of access to higher education, with a focus on class differentials, have highlighted the persistence and even increase of inequalities in access between youth of privileged and underprivileged classes. While communist regimes were not successful in leveling differences between classes in access to higher education, the inequalities have been aggravated during the last two decades of expansion in higher education, which have been peculiarly dramatic in both Romania and Hungary. In order to explain the enduring inequalities, the review highlights, besides the usual factors and mechanisms, the impact of qualitative differentiation, which can be understood in the frame of the theory of effectively maintained inequality. Considering prospects for future research, one should be beware not only of the probabilities of entering or not entering (or graduating), but also of the differentiated likelihoods of specific status groups and class categories to enter and graduate the various types of higher educational institutions and fields of study available. Contextual variables describing local and national policies and measures, as well as special institutional features should also be taken into consideration
Candidaţii prezidenţiabili pe Facebook în timpul protestelor din ianuarie 2012: The Presidential Candidates’ Presence on Facebook during the January 2012 Protests
No full textRaed Arafat’s resignation from his position of Secretary of State within the Ministry of Health on January 10th 2012 ignited the political crisis that took place in January-February 2012 and led to a series of street protests, which culminated when the Emil Boc Government resigned on February 9th 2012. The newness of these street movements that happened in Romania’s large cities consisted in the online mobilization of the protesters. The citizens showed online their solidarity with Raed Arafat, the medic who opposed the Government’s intentions to change the Sanitary System Law. According to the Secretary of State, the reform would have liberalized the health services, which would have affected the low income population, as well as the Public Emergency Ambulance Service. The social networks users organized in online communities of supporters, and the members of these groups settled and communicated online the time and meeting place where they gathered to shout anti-governmental and anti-presidential slogans every evening. The Romanian politicians, especially the potential candidates for the 2014 presidential elections, have not remained indifferent. Most of them reacted in an effort to improve their image and their level of trust among the protesters, who have organized themselves through social media. Using the content analysis method applied on the politicians’ official Facebook accounts, this article presents the quick reactions, and the image and communication strategies that the presidential candidates resorted to during the protests started on the social networks in January 2012