Sociologie Românească, Vol. II, no. 3/2004, pp. 129-144.
Controverse teoretice asupra dezvoltării sociale: puncte de vedere în sociologia românească
Conceptual controversies over social development: perspectives from Romanian sociology
Maria Larionescu
Abstract (Rezumat în limba engleză): The article focuses on four typical representations of the development of Romanian society: a) social development as a modernization process, crystallized in the project of 1848 Revolution, the neoliberal etatist Program and the theory of Neoiobagia; b) the social development as a support of the cultural identity, shared by populist and peasant projects; c) social development as a synthesis of modernization and cultural identity, shared by The Bucharest School of Sociology; d) social development as a modern institutional construction in the case of the delayed societies, expressed by C. Rădulescu-Motru in his logical postulate of identity.