Rezumate Sociologie Românescă
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. X, no. 2/2012, pp. 21-41.
Trei în unu sau Despre cum încap dreapta, stânga şi centrul în aceeaşi oală. O abordare comparată de istorie orală a Şcolii sociologice de la Bucureşti
Three in One. Notes on How the Right, the Left and the Center Fit Together in the Bucharest Sociological School – A Comparative Oral History Approach
Theodora-Eliza Văcărescu*
*Universitatea din Bucureşti, Facultatea de Jurnalism şi Ştiinţele Comunicării, Departamentul de Antropologie culturală şi comunicare, Bd. Iuliu Maniu 1-3, Complex Leu, Corp A, et. 6, sector 6, Bucureşti, România. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Abstract (Rezumat în limba engleză): In this article I address the pluralistic ideological and political format of an intellectual and research group active in interwar Romania, and the difficulties raised by this characteristic in situating the group in one fixed and monolithic ideological or political cluster. After World War I and the Paris Peace Treaty, the provinces of Transylvania, Bessarabia and Bukovina were annexed to the Old Kingdom, and “Greater” Romania came into existence, bringing about difficult and complex problems of nation building and social reform. Sociological research and social action seemed one possible way of addressing the crisis of Romanian society. Thus, during the late 1920s and especially in the 1930s, a large social and national research and action program emerged. In this paper I argue that the Bucharest Sociological School functioned as an intellectual and sociological research group whose ideological and political development and orientation mirrored the Romanian public sphere, thus ensuring the School a pluralistic format. The primary research method is analysis of the some of the oral history documents provided by Zoltán Rostás’ broad project of interviewing the members of the School mostly during the 1980s. I compare the discourses of the first and the second generations of monographers as recorded in oral history interviews with the goal to provide an alternate reading of the ideological and political orientations of the Sociological School founded and coordinated by Dimitrie Gusti.
Keywords: History of Sociology; Bucharest Sociological School; Sociological Monographic Campaigns; Interwar Romania; Oral History; Political Culture.
Cuvinte cheie: istoria sociologiei; Şcoala sociologică de la Bucureşti; campanii de monografie sociologică; România interbelică, istorie orală; cultură politică.
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. X, no. 2/2012, pp. 42-49.
Există un curent monografist în cadrul tinerei generaţii interbelice?
Is there a Monographist Current in the Milieu of the Young Interwar Generation?
Ionut Butoi*
*Facultatea de Sociologie şi Asistenţă Socială a Universităţii din Bucureşti, 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 (Rezumat în limba engleză): In this article I will seek to bring to the fore a current which, until now, escaped the attention of those who study the problem of the young interwar generation: the monographist current or the one inspired by the Sociological School founded by Dimitrie Gusti. The question is to what extent such current can be identified. This research will provide just a few clues on a possible answer, not a full-fledged investigation. Also, this research is not one on the history of sociological ideas, being framed within the social history approaches of the Gustian School inspired by Zoltan Rostás. I show in this paper that the monographist current is originated in the early twenties of the interwar period, as an alternative to the radical student’s movement witch later will be dominated by the legionaries. The main feature of the monographists is their non-ideological and analytical approach of the realities of the time, as opposed to the highly ideological and radical legionaries, and their action-oriented stance, as opposed to the theoretical „essayists”(Eliade, Cioran, Noica). The monographist current is also much more institutionalized, being a public extension of the Gustian School, not merely a cultural or a political fashion. An important notice is that the Gustian monography as such begins with the youth problem of the interwar Romania, before it will return to the villages.
Keywords: Young Interwar Generation; Legionarism; Gustian School; Monography.
Cuvinte cheie: curent monografist; tânăra generaţie interbelică; legionarism; şcoala gustiană.
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. X, no. 2/2012, pp. 64-72.
Cercetarea monografică regională interbelică: cazul bănăţean
Monographic Regional Interwar Research: the Case of Banat
Carmen Albert*
*Universitatea „Eftimie Murgu” din Reşiţa, Facultatea de Teologie, Ştiinţe Sociale şi ale Educaţiei, Piaţa Traian Vuia, nr. 1-4, Reşiţa. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Abstract (Rezumat în limba engleză): In the interwar Romania, Dimitrie Gusti and his collaborators founded The Sociological School of Bucharest, based on monography as research and intervention method. In Banat, the monographical research was institutionalised through Social Institute Banat-Crişana who, due to its performances and its presence in this region’s culture, becomes a true landmark of Banat culture and an institution that gave individuality to this province. Our paper intends to analyse the way in which Sociological School of Bucharest influenced the monographical research in different regions of Romania with a focus on Social Institute Banat-Crişana and its leader, Cornel Grofşorean. We’ll analyze moments like: creation, the option for a research method, its journal, creation of Royal Foundation branches and also the manner in which the professional and personal relationship between Grofşorean and Dimitrie Gusti influenced this institution. Using qualitative content analysis on archive documents, our paper reveals the influence that Sociological School of Bucharest had on Social Institute Banat-Crişana and also the regional specificity of this institute. The monographical method proposed by Gusti receives in Banat some different attributes that makes it different from the original method. Through this paper we intend to offer a better knowledge of Social Institute Banat-Crişana and a better representation of this institution on the map of interwar Romanian sociology.
Keywords: Monographic Campaigns; Social Institute Banat-Crişana; Cornel Grofşorean; Applied Research; Archive̕ s Documents.
Cuvinte cheie: campanii monografice; Institutul Social Banat-Crişana; Cornel Grofşorean; cercetare aplicată; documente de arhivă.
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. X, no. 2/2012, pp. 50-63.
Sociologie cogitans şi sociologie militans. Aportul sociologiei gustiene la modernizarea României interbelice
Cogitans Sociology and Militans Sociology. The Contribution of Gustian Sociology to the Modernization of Interwar Romania
Lucian-Ştefan Dumitrescu*
*Institutul de Sociologie, Academia Română, Calea 13 Septembrie, Nr. 13, sector 5, 050711, Bucureşti, România. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Abstract (Rezumat în limba engleză): In the interwar period, Dimitrie Gusti, the founder of The Sociological School of Bucharest, along with other remarkable Romanian intelectuals, came to the conclusion that Romania’s social, economic, spiritual and political development was to be substantially influenced by the way peasantry’s problem was to be taken care of. In thinking so, Gusti has initiated the monographic campaigns which were to examine the Romanian village’s specific problems from a scientific point of view. Based on Gusti’s sociological system, the monographic teams revealed a traditional life shaped by a philosophy that had been the guiding thread of a millenary culture and civilization, namely the peasant one. Gusti put his indelible mark, i.e. sociologia militans and sociologia cogitans, on the reformation project of interwar Romania. This article discusses the meaning of sociologia cogitans and sociologia militans. It also presents some difficulties that Gusti’s sociologia militans had to overcome by highlighting the pre-modern social background of interwar Romania. Dimitrie Gusti was one of the most important experts involved in the interwar nation-building process. By presenting his educational background and the way he was influenced by the most prominent trends in the Romanian modern culture, the article highlights the modernization vision employed by Dimitrie Gusti throughout his career.
Keywords: Dimitrie Gusti; Social Reform; Interwar Romanian Society; Modernity.
Cuvinte cheie: Dimitrie Gusti; reformă socială; societatea românească interbelică; modernitate.
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. X, no. 2/2012, pp. 73-83.
Contextul politic şi cultural al înfiinţării Muzeului Satului
The Political and Cultural Context of Foundation of the Village Museum
Zoltán Rostás*
*Universitatea din Bucureşti, Facultatea de Jurnalism şi Ştiinţele Comunicării, Bd. Iuliu Maniu 1-3, Complex Leu, Corp A, Sector 6, Bucureşti. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Abstract (Rezumat în limba engleză): In this study I show the political and cultural context of the Village Museum’s establishment, and I will not tackle the – so often discussed throughout the decades – scientific reasons of this institution’s foundation. Dimitrie Gusti and his sociological monographic team emphasized, as early as 1928, since the monographic campaign undertaken at Fundul Moldovei, the scientific and pedagogical value of exhibitions and museums. After 1934, under the aegis of the Royal Cultural Foundation „Prince Carol”, the voluntary royal student teams used to annually organize exhibitions illustrating their accomplishments and objects gathered in the field. All these activities constituted the antecedents of the Village Museum.I will stress the main contextual aspects that facilitated and legitimated the rapid establishment of the institution. I will outline the propagandistic function of the museum in the context of the interwar institutionalization of the national cultural construction of Greater Romania. I will present the meaning of the specific cultural politics (related to the museum) promoted by Carol II in the context of political contest in the 30s. I will also show the epoch’s micro-history that preceded the museum’s inauguration, illustrating it with fragments of oral history recorded in the 80s. Finally, I will explore the reasons of the ambivalent political discourse employed by the museum’s founder.
Keywords: The Village Museum; Rural Sociology; King Carol II; Dimitrie Gusti; Social Intervention; Royal Student’s Teams.
Cuvinte cheie: Muzeul Satului; sociologie rurală; Regele Carol al II-lea; Dimitrie Gusti; intervenţie socială; echipele regale studenţeşti.