Rezumate Sociologie Românescă
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XII, no. 3/2014, pp. 62-69.
Online communication for electoral purposes: A view on political practices in Timis County
Mariana Cernicova-Buca*
*Facultatea de Ştiinţe ale Comunicării, Universitatea Politehnică, Timişoara, Romania. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Abstract: The paper aims to present instances of political communication during electoral processes carried out with new media tools. The high rate of Internet penetration and the spreading of social networks triggered the response on the part of political candidates, interested to reach their publics wherever possible. In addition, the development of e-democracy, e-governance and e-politics naturally produces effects in electoral processes. The 2012 parliamentary elections in Romania have as distinctive features the breakdown of constituencies into smaller units and the uninominal vote instead of the previously employed party lists. These features placed the burden of communication tasks on individual candidates, who had to resort to at least one web based communication channel during the campaign. The article is structured in five sections, as follows: the first section is dedicated to presenting the context and tools of the study. The second section views the digital communication as the new frontier to conquer for political communicators. The third is dedicated to Romanian politicians and their Internet presence. The fourth section, which is the largest, places the 2012 parliamentary elections in Timis County under the microscope and highlights the choices of communication tools preferred by the candidates coming from the two political alliances that dominated the elections, the Social Liberal Union (USL) and the Right Romania Alliance (ARD). Finally, the concluding sections discusses further research to be carried in understanding how digital technologies shape the pillar of political communication in the years to come.
Keywords: online communication; electoral campaign; social media; interactivity.
Cuvinte-cheie: comunicare online; campanii electorale; social media; interactivitate.
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XII, no. 3/2014, pp. 70-85.
Percepţia vedetei de televiziune în spaţiul mediatic românesc la preadolescenţi, adolescenţi şi tineri
The Television Star Perception in the Romanian Media Field among Preadolescents, Adolescents and Youth
Elena-Lidia Dinu (Stan)*
*Central University Library “Carol I”, Communication Department, 1, Boteanu, 1 District, Bucharest, Romania. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Abstract: A second outcome of my thesis is the study of the Television star perception in the Romanian media field among pre-teens, teens, and youth. I made a qualitative-comparative study, starting from the semi-directive interview technique, created to explore the way of thinking of three different groups: pre-teens, teens, and young (a total of 75 participants, of whom 31 were male and 44 were female). The article investigates media consumerism, the appearance of the new customers being related to their adaptation to new lifestyles and values. The media consumption becomes a way of building an intelligible universe where the social relations can be maintained or replaced. Hence, the research has explored the perceived differences among three different groups regarding Romanian star system as well as the opinion convergence levels, making it possible to understand the experience lived by these people. In this study, documents, questions for interviews, and explanatory statement to participants are included. This complex analysis is also supported by a comprehensive bibliography and at the same time representative. Unfortunately, the psychologists are concerned with the level of dependency of different types of media consumption (television, Internet, video games), pointing to overconsumption. The conclusions of the research shine a new light on the mixing the right to information and the showbiz sensationalism can destroy public confidence in journalism and discredit the profession.
Keywords: qualitative research; celebrities; consumerism; star system.
Cuvinte-cheie: cercetare calitativă; celebrităţi; consumerism; star system.
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XII, no. 3/2014, pp. 97-105.
Criticându-l pe Bourdieu în mod pragmatic
The French Pragmatic School Reading Bourdieu
Nicolas Maslowski*
*Universitatea Carolină, Praga, Republica Cehă. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Abstract: This article tries to sum up some elements of the critic of the Bourdieu’s critical theories done by the representatives of one current in the French sociology – the pragmatic sociology. Among other things, this current criticises the privileged position in Bourdieu’s sociology of the sociologist himself. Thanks to the reflexivity, he is able to liberate himself from the illusion. For the pragmatic, the capacity to criticise is distributed among the citizens and makes sense. Instead of proposing a critical sociology, we should consider to explain sociologically the social critic of usual and unusual actors. Another critic is the determinism of its structural explanation. The society, the social forces, the structural explanation are explaining everything. And everything can be translated in terms of fields, habitus, illusion, structure. The social forces are deciding about everything, according to Bourdieu. But they are not more visible and scientific than God’s hand, when we take them for granted. We have to listen to the actors to understand their actions, even if their beliefs are different than the ones of the social scientist. The actors and their competences should be taken seriously, and they have the feeling that it is not the case in Bourdieu’s sociology.
Keywords: Bourdieu; critical sociology; pragmatic sociology; illusio; structure.
Cuvinte-cheie: Bourdieu; sociologie critică; sociologia pragmatică; illusio; structură.
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XII, no. 3/2014, pp. 86-96.
Murales Bolognese: Visual Representation of Italian Urban Culture
Eugen Glăvan*
*Research Institute for Quality of Life, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Abstract: The city of Bologna (Italy) is mainly known for the rich and well-preserved history, the left-wing political opinions of its inhabitants and for the one of the lowest child birth rates in a European city. These aspects, combined with the fact that the city has the largest university in Europe in terms of number of students, shapes the local urban culture in a particular way. This paper investigates the visual manner in which some inhabitants of Bologna, collectively known as “graffers”, express themselves in an attempt to identify the characteristics of their public voice. Such expression is often in contradiction with the way in which the town officials wish to promote a certain image of Bologna based on historical tradition. The methods of visual sociology are used to analyse the graffiti in terms of locations and content, in an attempt to explain the process of socialisation in a stable and prosperous society.
Keywords: graffiti; subculture; Bologna; visual sociology.
Cuvinte-cheie: graffiti; subcultură; Bologna; sociologie vizuală.
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XII, no. 3/2014, pp. 106-117.
Întoarcerea la imaginația sociologică. Provocările sociologiei publice pentru România
Back to sociological imagination. The challenges for public sociology for Romania
Delia Bădoi*
*Universitatea din Bucureşti, Romania. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Abstract: The present article starts with a discussion detached from the academic community of American sociologists, which is based on public sociology, with reference on relevancy and utility of sociological knowledge production: “Sociology for whom”; “What kind of sociology?” Through the scientific studies, the hypothesis of this article shows that sociology as science is at this moment unable to contribute to the use of its own results, due to the lack of a truly interested audience in the extra-academic sphere. The development of a critical and reflexive theory based on the relationship between academic sociology, public sociologist and the public sphere represents an important step in this research about public sociology. The thesis that we want to demonstrate contains, on the one side, critical explanations about the current issue of the sociologist as a public intellectual and on the other side, it refers to the scientific production of sociology in a knowledge society. However, the new risk society born in the recent era of modernity, have devoted a new type of challenges for sociology as science. In the French sociology, Pierre Bourdieu opened an important chapter on the issue of sociology as science and his reflexivity “Science of science and reflexivity” (2001) and also in the American sociology, Charles Wright Mills in “The Sociological Imagination” (1959) introduces a critical theory of scientific knowledge and the abstract empiricism of sociological research of the 1950s. More recently, the debate about the engagement of sociology as a public science continued in the American academic space, when historical controversies in the development of critical theories was resumed by Michael Burawoy in For sociology (2004). The social significance of the article theme consists in the answer of two questions: How does a public science look like? (1) What public for public sociology? (2) From the epistemological perspective of this article analysis, the interest of exploring the “public” reality of sociology is an important objective for giving an explanation about sociological knowledge in the current social construction. In conclusion, we propose to analyze the development of the practices of sociologists as public intellectuals in international academic context, especially to illustrate the challenges of public sociology for Romanian professional sociology.
Keywords: Public sociology; sociology of science; reflexivity; sociological knowledge; knowledge society.