Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology Review)
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Urban Shrinkage as a problem of post-socialist transformation. The Case of Eastern Germany
Get PDFThis article follows the shrinkage phenomenon into the Eastern German cities, as a post socialist transformation that has occurred during mostly during the 1990s. Furthermore the case of East Germany is particular since different shrinkage processes already occurred here in GDR times. The shrinkage after 1990 linked to those already existing, shrinking cities; shrinking cities are thus not a new city type in East Germany, but instead accompany its development
Post-Industrial Tourism as a Chance to Develop Cities in Traditional Industrial Regions in Europe
Get PDFThe paper is about the future of development of traditional industrial regions after their restructuring. Creating of tourist trails based on industrial heritage is shown as a good pattern of actions striving to revitalization of such areas. As a confirmation there are presented two examples of post-industrial tourist routs in Europe: “The Industrial Heritage Trail” in Ruhr Metropolitan Area (Germany) and “Industrial Monuments Route of the Silesian Voivodeship” in Metropolitan Association of Upper Silesia (Poland). Regions in which these trail are located are simultaneously very similar and much different so there are compared both determinants and consequences of creating there these tourist routs. As a result it is ascertained that in spite of the difficulties in adaptations of industrial facilities into tourist objects such actions are profitable and may help in further development of traditional industrial regions
Activisme civique, protestation et contextes politiques. Comparer la Roumanie et la Suisse: Civic Activism, Protest and Political Contexts. Comparing Romania and Switzerland
No full textThough taken for an important asset for democracy, the political participation changed dramatically in Western democratic contexts, over the last decades. In Switzerland, for instance, it moved from political party activism to new forms of participation, as protest activism. It is acknowledged today that by moving from conventional to unconventional forms, the political participation managed to bring in large social categories that were previously excluded, especially women. What happened in Romania during the last couple of decades? Political participation is there as uneven as it generally was in the ‘50’s, in Western contexts? Does protest in Romania differ from Western protest, especially from the Swiss case? Whereas Western protest is largely acknowledged as the continuation of participation by other means, is this the case in Romania? Or could we take protest in Romania more likely for a contestation of democratic legitimacy? The overall conclusion of this research is that protesters in Romania are very similar to their Swiss counterparts and that they are by no means a threat against the still unconsolidated Romanian democracy
(Recenzie) Dobrogea: Identităţi şi crize, Societatea Reală, vol. 5 / 2009, (coord.) Bogdan Iancu, Editura Paideea, Bucureşti, 165 p.: (Book Review) Dobrogea: Identities and Crises. Real Society, vol. 5 / 2009, Bogdan Iancu (Ed.), Paideea, Bucharest, 165 p.
No full textCorupția în societatea românească postrevoluționară în perspectivă normativă și sociologică
No full textTranziţia: va mai fi sociologia românească la fel? Transition: Romanian sociology will be the same?
No full textThe transition societies find sociology unprepared to explain the global societies. The sociologists, both in the West and those from the transition countries, share a paradigm which distorted their explanative capacity: explanation by project. The transition society is considered to be a project accomplished to a specific extent, or an accomplishment of its imperfection. The project which directed the entire transition took place of theory of the transition society. The analysis relies on a multi-structural paradigm of the complex social systems. The transition society cannot be explained as a degree of accomplishment of the pattern of the successful capitalism, rather as a confrontation/balancing of several structural trends. The project of transition represents a structural trend. In competition with this one, we may also identify another structural trend generated by the social structure of the transition, different from that of the classical capitalist societies. In transition, the political class holds the actual power, in coalition with the new developing capitalists and with the top officials of the public system. The bulk of the profit doesn’t come from the economic activity, rather from exploiting the resources of the state. The profile of the transition state can be explained better in its hypostasis of neo-feudal state
Riscuri de excluziune pe piaţa muncii din România a grupului de tineri de 15-24 de ani: Risks of Labor Market Exclusion of the Youth Group Aged 15-24 Years
No full textThe article presents a research concerning an important group from Romania, at risk of social exclusion – young people between 15 and 24 years old, which are being exposed at the risk of exclusion from the labor market. The work is structured in three parts, addressing as many issues, respectively an attempt to capture the main aspects of the concept of social exclusion the way they are being presented in the literature, a brief characterization of the socio-economic context in which the studied group is placed and activates and a restoration of the main vulnerabilities that the youth is facing on the labor market. The vulnerabilities have been identified through three focus groups organized with young people at risk of exclusion from the labor market, with the specialists who manage the problem of employment and with some employers, all from Bihor County. The results were fortified with analyzes based on existing data and with results from specialized studies. The identified risks were grouped in two categories, respectively risks arising from the socio-economic context in which young people are living (insufficient jobs that are being inadequate to the educational and vocational training of the youth; unfavorable attitude of the employers towards young people; the unemployment; the long-term unemployment) and risks posed by the particular characteristics of young people (the residence in a rural area; being member of a deinstitutionalized youth group or of a family in difficulty, along with a low level of education, reduced experience and an induced deterrent attitude in seeking a job)
National Identity in the Political Discourse in Slovakia
Get PDFThe present paper seeks to integrate social identity theory and theory of social representations in the attempt to describe the links between the national identity and Slovakia’s attitudes towards the Other. The paper’s position is founded in the assumption that national identity is constructed and deconstructed discursively through the means of socialisation (media, education, legislation and everyday practices). Slovakia has recently adopted several controversial acts that substantially regulate the aforementioned means of socialisation, and are said to be designed to protect the nation, national identity and integrity which itself implies perception of a threat of some kind. It is hypothesized that rhetoric of such laws constructs national identity as one that is threatened by the Other while overemphasizing the presence of intergroup threat and conflict. Such discourse thus makes people defend themselves and re-evaluate their national identity by reaffirming who they are in the respective intergroup affairs. The conflicts not only heighten identification with a group but also create antagonistic intergroup attitudes. Through a brief discourse analysis of the abovementioned laws (Act on the State Language, Act on Citizenship and Patriotism Act) the paper aims to analyse social representations of nation and national identity in the political discourse and their potential impact on intergroup relations between the so called ‘Old Slovaks’ (ethnic Slovaks) and the Other. We thus seek to test the extent to which Slovakia adheres to the universalistic principles of equality and justice, or to which it heightens social significance of ethnicity and creates division within the society
