Rezumate Sociologie Românescă
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XII, no. 4/2014, pp. 64-74.
Colleges of Advanced Studies, as Key Institutions in the Field of Talent-care and as Possible Channels of Social Mobility. Brief Presentation and Evaluation of the Possibilities of Implementation in Romania and other Post-socialist Countries
Andras Csaba Gyorbiro, Georgina Ileana Szilagyi, Nora Alice Gyorbiro*
*Partium Christian University Oradea, str. Primariei nr.36, Romania. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Partium Christian University Oradea, str. Primariei nr.36, Romania. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Babeș-Bolyai University, str. Kogalniceanu nr.1, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Abstract: In our paper we will briefly present the historical background of the Hungarian Colleges for Advanced Studies. These institutions in the frame of the Hungarian educational system have been for decades identified with the concepts of “elite-training” due to both historical and professional reasons. We will not only mention the foreign examples which led to the expansion of these Colleges in Hungary but we will also present which social and political factors contributed to the appearance and evolution of the colleges. We also present the Colleges for Advanced Studies which recruit students of Roma origin, trying to push forward the Roma community`s social integration through forming young intellectuals. We try to analyze the social role of both the classical and the recently founded Roma colleges, and we demonstrate through qualitative research methods whether such institutions can contribute to the social inclusion of groups multiple disadvantages. We also analyze the possibility of transferring the concept and functioning methods of the colleges to other EU member states, especially to Romania, taking into the consideration all the factors which would theoretically favor the possibility of transferring the best practices but also evaluating the aspects which would make this process more difficult, mainly as result of the various educational traditions and social attitudes towards such institutions in the two countries.
Keywords: social inclusion; talent-care; higher education; colleges for advanced studies.
Cuvinte-cheie: incluziune socială; grijă pentru talente; studii superioare; colegii pentru studii avansate.
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XII, no. 4/2014, pp. 40-50.
Eugeniu Speranţia and Axiological Sociology – between Phenomenology and Noology
Mădălina Măndiță*
*Institute of Sociology, Romanian Academy. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Abstract: This paper intends to reevaluate the studies of Eugeniu Sperantia, the founder of axiological sociology in Romania. Starting from the importance of values in society, Sperantia analyses the spiritual dimension, the manifestation of the axiological factor in the social logic, a manifestation that creates social realities full of meaning for sociology. We can consider axiological sociology as a response of the Romanian sociology to the phenomenological theory appeared in the German cultural space, and in this line of thought in which prevails the spiritual manifestations we can also include the noological sociology, a view that seeks to understand the spiritual order of the social world. Thus, we can consider phenomenology as the most general theoretical framework, followed at an intermediate level by the axiological sociology focused on the dimension of the spiritual factors considered necessary to establish the specific determinism of sociology, and at a more restricted level, the noological sociology – a view that underlines the religious values in understanding the way society works. This theoretical perspective offers the possibility to gain access to the spiritual foundations of a society, like values or religious faiths, starting from the importance of intersubjectivity and the way that society forms itself and exists.
Keywords: values; phenomenological sociology; spiritual; intersubjectivity; noology.
Cuvinte-cheie: valori; sociologie fenomenologică; spiritual; intersubiectivitate; noologie.
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XII, no. 4/2014, pp. 28-39.
Convieţuire interetnică, identificare etno-religioasă şi segregare şcolară în Topliţa. Note de cercetare
Inter-ethnic Coexistence, Ethno-religious Identification and School Segregation in Topliţa. Research Notes
Radu Baltasiu*
*Universitatea din Bucureşti, Facultatea de Sociologie şi Asistenţă Socială, Str. Schitu Măgureanu 9 sector 5, Bucureşti. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Abstract: The aim of this report is to outline the community coherence issues of Toplita, Harghita county, having as starting points the ethnic and religious issues found. It is based on a qualitative and exploratory field research, conducted in August-September 2013. Regarding the methodological approach, the research is based on the neo-interpretative approach. During the study, the emphasis is focused upon identifying the springs of the community’s religious identity and the way they are customized according to the ethnic factor. The geographical location and historical past of Toplita underlines a complex identity, of ethnic and religious confluence. The study attempts to decipher the manner in which the social memory managed to keep (or not) the traditional elements connected to the ethnic-religious identification, the components of inter-ethnic representations, and communitary self-identification of this kind, the role of religious institutions in maintaining social harmony or in terms of potential conflict that the latest paradigms of sociology of religions assigns to religious phenomena. Another direction of research is given by the social and symbolic involvement of various religious institutions and by the manner in which they implement the social change through various assistance programs they develop, which can reveal the relevance of religious identity in the ethnic context of Toplita.
Keywords: sociology of religion; ethnicity; segregation; interculturality; neointerpretative methodology.
Cuvinte-cheie: sociologia religiei; etnicitate; segregare; interculturalitate; metodologie neointerpretativă.
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XII, no. 4/2014, pp. 75-87.
Unicitatea personală – către o perspectivă sociologică
Personal Uniqueness – towards a Sociological View
Sergiu Bălțătescu*
*Universitatea din Oradea, Str. Universității nr. 1, Corp V, Oradea. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Abstract: In this paper we review the biases associated with the sense of personal uniqueness: better-than-average effect, illusory superiority, person-positivity bias, leniency error, sense of relative superiority, third-person effect, unrealistic optimism, illusion of control, and Lake Wobegon effect. These biases are encountered in many domains of life such as health behaviours, driving, academic life, media use, personal relationships and happiness. Explanations offered until now are either motivational (the need to increase and maintain self-esteem) or non-motivational (such as informational differences, focalism, naive realism or egocentrism). However the sociological explanations cannot be ignored, parts of these effects being discussed in known theories in the field such as spiral-of-silence (Noelle-Neumann), organic solidarity (Durkheim), social distance (Bogardus) and social systems (Parsons). Likewise, the positive effects of personal uniqueness (self-enhancement, happiness in relationships, and recovery after traumatic events) are socially constructed and the line between functional and dysfunctional is rather thin. The negative effects exist at individual level (lack of strong health prevention measures, permeability to the damaging media messages, and consumerist attitudes). At societal level, the dangers are rather neglected but may be even more serious: exacerbated personal uniqueness may conduce to an erosion of solidarity, of interpersonal and political trust, of individuality and of tolerance. Remedies are in most cases hard to find and implement, giving the complex nature of these biases, the resistance that individuals and organizations oppose to the debiasing strategies.
Keywords: personal uniqueness; biases; consumption; well-being; sociological interpretation.
Cuvinte-cheie: unicitatea personală; distorsiuni cognitive; consum; bunăstare; interpretare sociologică.
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XII, no. 4/2014, pp. 88-95.
(Review) Dani Rodrik, The Globalization Paradox – Democracy and the Future of the World Economy, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2011, 368 p.
Zsolt Bottyan*
*Universitatea din Oradea, Departamentul de Sociologie și Asistență Socială.