Rezumate Sociologie Românescă
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Sociologie Românească, Vol. IX, no. 3/2011, pp. 76-89.
The Patterns of Depopulation in Timişoara – Research Note
Bogdan Nadolu*, Dan Lucheș, Melinda Dincă
*Author Adress: Department of Sociology, West University Timișoara, Blvd. V. Parvan 4, room 333, Timisoara, Romania.
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Abstract (Rezumat în limba engleză): The shrinking phenomenon represents a natural trend into the evolution of an urban community. Usually it comes together with economical decline, unemployment, house vacancy, perforation of the urban grid, local budget decreasing and so on. Timisoara has loosed around 14% of population in almost 2 decades. Can be this considerate a signal for the shrinking process? This paper is based on the partial results of the project FP7 no.225193 “ShrinkSmart – The Governance of the Shrinkage into the European Context”, financed by European Commission, Theme 8 Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities 2009-2012 (http://www.shrinksmart.ufz.de/). West University of Timisoara is partner into the consortium of this project, together with 7 other European Universities. The team from West University of Timisoara is composed from Melinda Dincă, Dan Lucheş, Delia Nadolu and Bogdan Nadolu (the coordonator).
Keywords: Urban Depopulation, Shrinking Cities, Demographic Changes.
Cuvinte-cheie: depopulare urbană, oraşe în descreştere, schimbări demografice
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Sociologie Românească, Vol. IX, no. 3/2011, pp. 90-120.
Votez, deci exist? Un studiu longitudinal al participării la vot în alegerile parlamentare din România
I vote, therefore I am? A longitudinal study of turnout in the parliamentary elections in Romania
Marius I. Tătar
Author Adress: Universitatea din Oradea, Departamentul de Științe Politice, Str. Traian Blajovici nr. 2, Oradea, 410238, Romania.
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Abstract (Rezumat în limba engleză): The paper analyzes the dynamics of electoral participation and its predictors in Romania, using both official data on turnout and post-electoral surveys’ data. Turnout in the Romanian parliamentary elections has declined by over 50% in the last 20 years of democratic reconstruction. However, turnout decline is unevenly distributed, being more dramatic in the last decade especially in the urban areas as well as among younger cohorts of voters. The decline of turnout in parliamentary elections is also accompanied by a shift in the importance of the predictors of voting. The analyses of electoral participation and its predictors suggest that voting in the Romanian parliamentary elections has become the attribute of a minority of citizens who still feel closer to a political party, are interested in politics, trust the political institutions and leaders, ideologically place themselves at the extremes of the left-right axis, and of those who are more exposed to mobilization attempts both because they live in smaller communities in the rural areas which are more easily controlled by local political leaders or because they are part of social networks that are influenced by political parties or politicians. This is the “hard core” of a generally apathetic electorate which is unconfident in the efficacy of elections as a tool for producing social transformations, a public which is becoming less and less demanding with the politicians after the subsequent disappointments with the democratic governance after 1989.
Keywords: electoral behavior, Romania, political mobilization, political disaffection.
Cuvinte-cheie: comportament electoral, România, mobilizare politică, deziluzii politice.
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Sociologie Românească, Vol. IX, no. 1/2012, pp. 3-35.
Faţetele multiple ale nemulţumirii populare: o schiţă sociologică a protestelor in Piaţa Universităţii din ianuarie 2012
The Multiple Facets of Popular Discontent: A Sociological Outline of the January 2012 Protests from Bucharest's University Square
Cătălin Augustin Stoica*
*Universitatea din Bucureşti, Facultatea de Sociologie şi Asistenţă Socială, Str. Schitu Măgureanu 9, Sector 5, Bucureşti. E-mail: Această adresă de email este protejată contra spambots. Trebuie să activați JavaScript pentru a o vedea..
Abstract (Rezumat în limba engleză): This article addresses the January 2012 protests from Bucharest, Romania. Due to protesters’ high social diversity, their numerous themes of discontent, and rejection of all current politicians, these protests have been compared to Spain’s „Indignados” movement. I analyze these protests from the standpoint of the theories of collective behavior, outlining their features, duration, and degree of organization. I contend that, although these demonstrations might have contained the seeds of future social and political movements, the January 2012 events could be understood properly as a form of collective behavior. I offer a structural explanation for the emergence of these protests and I discuss the heterogeneity of protesters and their themes using the tools of typological procedures (social types). These social types are constructed by taking into account individuals’ experience of participation in other public protests. I also address the similarities and differences between these protests and other demonstrations, such as those from 1990 in Romania or the recent protests from Spain. As compared to the Spanish protests, the Romanian demonstrations have involved significantly fewer individuals – a fact that is linked to local polity forms, social atomization, generalized distrust, and low civic participation. Despite all this, the Romanian protests have generated a series of political changes, which culminated in the resignation of the Prime Minister Emil Boc and his cabinet. While the opposition parties are likely to capitalize on Romanians’ discontent with the former main ruling party, populist, extremist, and anti-system political forces might also gain public support by exploiting citizens’ widespread distrust of current politicians and Parliament.
Keywords: collective behavior; protests; frames; politics; social types.
Cuvinte-cheie: comportament colectiv; proteste; cadre sociale; politică; tipuri sociale.
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Sociologie Românească, Vol. IX, no. 3/2011, pp. 121-140.
Activisme civique, protestation et contextes politiques. Comparer la Roumanie et la Suisse
Civic Activism, Protest and Political Contexts. Comparing Romania and Switzerland
Dragoş Dragoman
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Sociologie Românească, Vol. IX, no. 3/2011, pp. 152-155.
(Recenzie) Sociologia între epistemologie şi contexte personale. Cătălin Zamfir, O istorie subiectivă în sociologia românească: din 1944 până în prezent. Editura Polirom, Iași, 2009, 208 p. Pierre Bourdieu, Schiţă pentru o autoanaliză, Grupul Editorial Art, Bucuresti, 2008, 143 p.
(Review)Sociology between Epistemology and Personal Contexts. Cătălin Zamfir, Romanian Sociology - a Subjective History from 1944 to Date, Polirom, Iaşi, 2009, 208 p., Pierre Bourdieu, Sketch for a Self-Analysis, Art Editorial Group, Bucharest, 2008, 143 p. / 152
Bogdan Gheorghiţă