Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology Review)
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(Recenzie) Miklós Bakk şi Jósef Benedek (coord.), Politici regionale în România, Editura Polirom, Iaşi, 2010, 173 p.: (Recenzie) Miklós Bakk and Jósef Benedek (eds.), Regional Policies in Romania, Polirom, Iaşi, 2010, 173 p.
No full textNew Authoritarianism - A Research Note
Get PDFTheories of modern authoritarianism have identified the nation state and the family as the major determinants of the development of the authoritarian character. Family was conceived as the psychological agent of the nation state in the process leading to the emergence of superego to maintain strict borders between normalcy and deviance. The result was the authoritarian personality whose love, adoration and readiness for submission are aroused by power represented by external authorities. In contemporary Western societies neither external nor internal authorities play any role in the life of the individual. What we find is that instead of disappearing, authoritarianism has become more prominent. Based on a series of surveys carried out in the fall of 2010 in Hungary symptoms of authoritarianism will be presented such as anti-democratic attitudes, approval with extreme right wing party programs, dogmatic orientations, agreement with authoritarian statements, and readiness to take positions in which members of a group look upon members of other groups as inferior. Multivariate analysis will be carried out in order to reveal the path leading to the new authoritarianism
Europe – region – town: cultural roots in narrations at southern Polish borderland
Get PDFThis paper reconstructs common concepts of Europe, cultural region and locality, worded by inhabitants of southern Poland, referring to their involvement in cultural changes that appeared after accession to European Union. Ethnographic research and in-depth interviews in small towns at the borderland show strong cultural changes that happened under the influence of opening the borders and reception of the EU’s funds and regulations. The most common belief among people who decide about the shape of local culture in those towns is that the constitutive features of the European community are multiculturalism and cultural openness. There is the point to analyze the relation between the experience of the cultural and political changes and the process of construction of the European, regional (supranational) and local identity. That goal is realized by use of the qualitative method of the sequential analysis of text. The results of that analysis show the mechanisms of building one’s own identity and perceiving the social world by people with clear nationalistic views and positive attitude to Europe and the EU. The fundamental characteristic of this vision of the world is the existence of two ways of identification with the community: by the community of interactions (the local community and transnational region) and the community of ideas (Poland and Europe). The conclusion is that the process of creation of the European identity is similar to the well-known nation-making processes and the idea of Europe could be created only by translation of transnational experiences of individuals to the level of ideological, imagined community
Fenomenul de corupție ca tip de inovație socială în contextul stării anomice care caracterizează tranziția în România
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Conferința Națională a Asociației Sociologilor din România, București, 21-22 mai 1993: The National Conference of the Association of Sociologists in Romania, Bucharest, May 21-22, 1993
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(Recenzie) Bernard Hours, Ideologia umanitară sau Spectacolul alterității pierdute, București, Institutul European, colecția Academica, 2010, 149 p.: (Book review) Bernard Hours, Humanitarian Ideology or the Spectacle of Lost Alterity, Bucureşti, Institutul European, colecţia Academica, 2010, 149 p.
No full textIdentity, Migration and Happiness
Get PDFIn this essay I offer reflections on how research on identity might connect to emerging research on happiness and well-being. I start with the premise that academic researchers, to the extent that we are interested in the “impact” of our research, would find it difficult to avoid a concern with happiness or well-being – insofar as we would want the “impact” of our work to be positive rather than negative. This premise poses difficult challenges for research on identity: while one can easily find positive correlations between strength of national identity and happiness, it is by no means clear that increases in strength of national identity would lead to increased happiness. A particular concern arises in relation to immigrants: efforts to enhance national identity among immigrants might carry negative consequences for their well-being, particularly if such efforts are conducted by governments in a quasi-coercive mode.
 
Characteristic Features of Urbanization on the Area of Silesian Province (Poland) on the Beginning of 21st Century
No full textThe article discusses the specific problems of urbanization development in the area of the Silesia Province in Poland. The specifics of historical and economic development, as well as, the characteristic arrangement of towns, determine the shaping of many specific phenomena and processes relating to urbanization. These processes are unusual for Poland and also not often encountered in other European metropolises. The article describes the phenomenon of transformation of the Katowice Conurbation, the functioning of the so called “non-metropolitan” agglomerations or the collapse of the hitherto prevailing administrative structures due to the separation of some of their districts. A characteristic phenomenon is also city shrinkage and the specific trajectories of the suburbanization process