Rezumate Sociologie Românescă
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Sociologie Românească, Vol. VIII, no. 2/2010, pp. 118-144.
Note de cercetare despre studiul comunităţilor rurale în România de astăzi
Research notes on the study of rural communities in present-day Romania
Bogdan Voicu, Daniel Arpinte, Claudia Petrescu, Mihnea Preotesi, Cristina Tomescu*
*Research Institute for the Quality of Life, Romanian Academy of Science
Abstract: Studying community is very common in current Romanian academic and non-academic research. For instance, assessing the impact of most development projects requires the study of the potentially affected communities, both before, during and after the implementation of the project. Community studies suppose the manipulation of both qualitative and quantitative data, and often require complex activities of data collection and validating. This research note addresses few practical issues for carrying the fieldwork during in rural communities. We do not discuss much about designing and the methodological aspects of such research, but we focus on the difficulties, risks and potential success strategies during data collecting.
Keywords: community research, fieldwork, mixed methods.
Cuvinte cheie: studii comunitare, cercetare de teren, metode mixte.
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Sociologie Românească, Vol. VIII, no. 2/2010, pp. 108-117.
Atlasul Etnografic Român. O notă de cercetare
The Romanian Ethnographic Atlas. A research note
Emil Ţîrcomnicu*
*Institutul de Etnografie şi Folclor "Constantin Brăiloiu" al Academiei Române
Abstract: The ethnographic research of the Institute of Ethnography and Folklore of the Romanian Academy has for two or three generations, starting with the six decade of last century's its main project to achieve the first Romanian Ethnographic Atlas. Were thus 40 years elapsed from the onset of researches and the project is now in its final stage: three books were published and two being drawn. On the trail of the Romanian Linguistic Atlas we were interested about the populations speaking idioms and dialects of Romanian language spread beyond the borders. The main purpose of the Romanian Ethnographic Atlas is to highlight the ethnographic values of the historical communities outside borders of Romania. In this respect, Romanian Ethnographic Atlas questionnaires will have beeing applied, choosing the pilot municipalities from the Romanian communities abroad. On this project probably will work two or three generations of ethnographers. Upon completion of these huge field information however we have a complete picture of Romanian ethnography particularities from the southern-eastern Europe.
Keywords: Romanian Ethnographic Atlas, ethnographic documents, holidays, customs.
Cuvinte cheie: Atlasul Etnografic Român, documente etnografice, sărbători, obiceiuri.
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Sociologie Românească, Vol. VIII, no. 2/2010, pp. 78-90.
Vocabularies of community involvement in urban Romania
Adrian Hatos*
*University of Oradea
Abstract: Many researchers consider that involvement in collective action, as defined by rational choice theorists, can be hardly explained without some appeal to cultural or psychological factors. This article discusses the results of a qualitative inquiry into the narratives of three types of actors of small urban community, including leaders of community organizations, active participants in collective actions, and the by-standers. It finds systematic differences in the stories provided by representatives of the three groups whose members have significantly different perspectives in terms of self-description and motivation for action. Therefore, we argue that explanations of individuals' availability for collective action based on social psychology and culturalist narratives should be taken into consideration.
Keywords: community involvement, culture, discourse, motivations.
Cuvinte cheie: participare comunitară, cultură, discurs, motivaţii.
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Sociologie Românească, Vol. VIII, no. 2/2010, pp. 161-175.
Parteneriat şi dezvoltare locală
Partnership and local development
Claudia Petrescu*, Andreea Constantin**
*Research Institute for the Quality of Life, Romanian Academy of Science
**University of Bucharest
Abstract: Lately, the concept of partnership has been widely used in local development strategies and programs, being one of the principles underlying these documents. This paper aims to study the role that partnership plays in the local development process, in order to see whether the importance attached to this principle in the development strategies and programs is suitable, and secondly to determine if the partnership that goes beyond a single community has a more significant effect on development. More specifically, the purpose of this paper is to describe how this partnerships functions in Romania, to identify the type of partnership that brings benefit for the community and the factors contributing to success or failure of such an approach.
Keywords: local development, partnership, associations for intercommunity development, microregional development.
Cuvinte cheie: dezvoltare locală, parteneriat, asociaţii de dezvoltare intercomunitară, dezvoltare microregională.
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Sociologie Românească, Vol. VIII, no. 2/2010, pp. 58-77.
Comunitatea rurală din perspectiva locuitorilor ei şi a administraţiei locale
The rural community seen from the perspective of its residents and local administration
Adela Elena Popa*
*University "Lucian Blaga" Sibiu
Abstract: The article analyses how people of rural Romania and local administrations relate to the community they belong to. The method used is secondary analyze on databases from three researches on Romanian rural life, with national representatives samples: Rural Barometer 2002, 2005, 2007. The last two of them are focused on the resident people image of community and the first one catches the image of community from the local administrations point of view. After reviewing the theoretical background on ommunity concept and after giving an operational definition of community, the article nalyses items relevant for community life, which can be distributed in three dimensions: elational social capital in community; community collective action; and people's nterest and information on community problems and local administration initiatives.
Keywords: community, social capital, collective action, local administration.
Cuvinte cheie: comunitate, capital social, acţiune colectivă, administraţie locală.