Rezumate Sociologie Românescă
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Sociologie Românească, Vol. II, no. 3/2004, pp. 145-178.
Irrationality and automaticity in human behavior from an evolutionary perspective
Detlef Fetchenhauer
Abstract (Rezumat în limba engleză): The rational choice theorists argue that human decision making can be regarded as rational and conscious. On the other hand researchers studying heuristics, biases and automatic processes emphasize human irrationality. The aim of this paper is to show how this argument may be solved by another meta-theoretical paradigm that has emerged mainly within the last decade and that was labeled evolutionary psychology (for introductions see Buss, 1995, 1999; Gaulin & McBurney, 2001; Crawford & Krebs, 1998). This approach argues that human cognition and behavior is the result of an ongoing adaptation of humans to their natural and social environment. While cognitive (social) psychologists during the last decades spent much time demonstrating the error proneness of human cognition and decision making, evolutionary psychology rather emphasizes the efficiency with which the human mind uses its specific cognitive capacities to behave in an adaptive way (Gigerenzer & Todd, 1999; Pinker, 1997). In this paper the main elements of evolutionary thinking are described and it will be discussed how evolutionary theory may help to solve the puzzle of automaticity and irrationality in human cognition and behavior.
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Sociologie Românească, Vol. II, no. 3/2004, pp. 179-201.
Cultură și experiență de migrație în satele României
Culture and migration experience in Romanian villages
Dumitru Sandu
Abstract (Rezumat în limba engleză): The study proposes a cultural typology of Romanian villages, relevant for the variation of choice behavior. The presence of relevant others within the village is the basic dimension of generating the typology. Starting from this hypothesis we identified six cultural types of villages with specific cultural profiles associated with imigration, ethnic minorities, religious minorities, high education stock, ecological isolation and traditionallity. The data for the analysis were from different censuses. Temporay migration abroad of the villagers is significantly differentiated function of the cultural type of community.
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Sociologie Românească, Vol. II, no. 3/2004, pp. 210-216.
Conferința anuală a Asociației Române de Sociologie și a Asociației Române de Promovare a Asistenței Sociale (Cluj, 7-8 mai 2004)
The Annual Conference of the Romanian Association of Sociology and of the Romanian Association for Promoting Social Work
Maria Larionescu
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Sociologie Românească, Vol. II, no. 3/2004, pp. 202-209.
Spre un model constructiv de gândire în organizații: gândirea de echipă. Gândirea de grup vs. gândirea de echipă
Towards a constructivist model of thinking in organizations: team thinking
Octavian Rujoiu
Abstract (Rezumat în limba engleză): Frequently, decision-making groups are paying much more attention to establish a consensus among its members instead of evaluating the alternative solutions/discussing the consequences and risks, are failing into agree the most properly decision according to the situation. How a constructive pattern of thinking could be established among the members of such a groups? This article promotes the existence of such a pattern of thinking called teamthink, which is useful to organizations and groups. Also, the article is ment to be a comparative perspective between groupthink and teamthink.
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Sociologie Românească, Vol. II, no. 3/2004, pp. 217-218.
Lansarea volumelor: Tranziția și reformele în România (188 p.), România și integrarea europeană (181 p.), Universitățile în schimbare (389 p.), de Ioan Mihăilescu
Launching the volumes: Transition and reforms in Romania
Ilie Bădescu