Rezumate Sociologie Românescă
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. IX, no. 2/2011.
How do the Romanians Experience the Process of Transnationalism? Canada and the UK Compared
Claudia Paraschivescu
Vol IX, no. 2, 2011, pp. 28-50
Author adress: Veristat Limited/Migrants Supporting Migrants, Citibase Manchester, 40 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 6DE.
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Abstract: The rapid improvement of technologies and communication has made it easier for migrants to maintain close links with their country of origin. Given the lack of empirical investigation on transnationalism, this comparative study argues that this process can be better understood by focusing on the experience of migrants. Using a sample of 27 participants from Canada and the UK, it has been found that transnationalism can be seen in terms of materiality and emotions. Factors such as length of stay, marital status and the national institutional context play an important role in the development and sustainability of transnationalism. However, they do not prevent the process from occurring, but rather change its practice. In that respect, the participants from Canada are likely to experience material transnationalism, while the participants from the UK tend to live the process of transnationalism in an affective form.
Keywords: Globalisation, diasporas, integration, Romanian migrants, transnationalism, in-betweeness, multiculturalism, cross-national comparative analysis, qualitative research.
Cuvinte-cheie: Globalizare, diaspore, integrare, migranti români, transnaționalism, in-betweeness, multiculturalism, analiză comparativă, cercetare calitativă.
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. IX, no. 2/2011.
Pentru un continuum conceptual în vocabularul antropologic al variabilităţii etno-culturale din România
Toward a Conceptual Continuum in the Anthropological Vocabulary of the Ethno-Cultural Belongingness in Romania
Marin Constantin
Vol IX, no. 2, 2011, pp. 51-65
Author adress: Institutul de Antropologie „Francisc Rainer” al Academiei Române, Bucureşti
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Abstract: Among other phenomena of epistemological relevance, the Romanian anthropological literature is currently characterized by a research orientation to the study of minority or ethno-cultural groups, which, due to the continuous development of thematic working themes and objectives, reveals an important theoretical resource for the scientific horizon of cultural anthropology. In this paper, I shall discuss first the categories of analysis in the Romanian anthropological documentation and interpretation of ethnicity, in an attempt to concretize the conceptual vocabulary specific to such a disciplinary approach. Afterwards, I shall identify some thematic correspondences (as represented by terminological series) between ethnographic accounts that belong to local communities of Szeklers, Saxons, Căldărars, Rudars, and Lipovans. My article is intended to contribute to the clarifying of anthropological criteria in the study of ethnicity, to the extent to which language, ethno-history, territoriality, sociality, economy, ethos, and worldview might be accounted for conceptual landmarks within a comparative investigation on the ethno-cultural variability. As will be argued, establishing some correlations between theoretical categories and ethnographic accounts is to develop perspectives of a conceptual continuum with a heuristic potential for the understanding of the ethnic facts, and of the critical reflection upon them, as well.
Keywords: ethnic variability; ethnic self-definition; conceptualization; anthropological criteria.
Cuvinte-cheie: variabilitate etno-culturală; autodefinire etnică; conceptualizare; criterii antropologice.
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. IX, no. 2/2011.
Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurship and the Political Role of Saxonness without Saxons in Sibiu
Monica Stroe
Vol IX, no. 2, 2011, pp. 86-96
Author adress: National School of Political Sciences and Public Administration, Department of Sociology, No. 6-8, Povernei St., Bucharest, Romania.
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Abstract: The paper discusses the symbolic capital of Saxonness in the Romanian and Transylvanian public sphere and its uses as a political and cultural resource. I am examining the historical representations of Saxonness and the local, national and European context in which they are activated and re-signified, acquiring contemporary meanings. I focus on the mechanisms behind the political support of Klaus Johannis, representative of The German Democratic Forum in Romania, the Saxon mayor of the city of Sibiu (Transylvania), currently serving his third four-year long mandate. My analysis will attempt to capture the relation between his noteworthy success as elected local representative and the apparently contradictory local demographic evolution: a Saxon minority whose numbers dropped severely in the last decades, reaching a lower limit of under 2% of the total local population. The study explores some of the possible mechanisms that lie at the foundation of the contemporary political capital of Saxonness in Sibiu, by focusing on the salience of ethnicity in elections media discourse and in the collective imagery as reflected in the Ethnobarometer, supported by historical arguments of the “myth of the Saxon”.
Keywords: ethnicity; reference group; ethnopolitical entrepreneurship.
Cuvinte-cheie: etnicitate; grup de referinţă; antreprenoriat etnopolitic.
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. IX, no. 2/2011, pp. 66-85.
The hierarchizations consistency of the potential sources of work satisfaction: methods of achieving and assessing hierarchic orders
Cătălin Mamali*, Gheorghe Păun**
*Author Adress: Loras College, 1450 Alta Vista St. Dubuque, Iowa 52001.
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**Author Adress: University of Bucharest, Division of Systems Studies, Str. Academiei 14, 70109 Bucureşti, Romania.
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Abstract: In social life, people try to know, to build, to maintain, to change, to destroy and to avoid hierarchies. At the social level, the hierarchical systems are considered to be desirable for their capacity to increase efficiency, communication and control in the human actions, and undesirable for generating stratification of social actors, impeding participation and democracy. In this paper we focused on the consistency of the hierarchies, answering to the question of what happens when one and the same person hierarchizes the same set of objects using two different ways. We applied this in a particularly research field - the work motivation – being interested to study the consistency of the hierarchies of satisfaction sources. We used a list of 24 factors of work satisfaction and motivation that we applied to a group 56 young workers in an enterprise, asking them to fill an indirect hierarchization questionnaire in which all the factors were compared among themselves (resulting 276 diads), and a direct hierarchization, by asking the subjects to select, in order, the most important five factors for generating work satisfaction and the most important 5 factors for generating work dissatisfaction. We found that the highly trained subjects are more "coherent" than the low educated. Scalar hierarchization seems to be more natural, because more subjects are consistent in this case, compared with pairs examination. Finally, the respondents violated independence condition with the same ease as they produce Condorcet paradoxes, making us think at the cost of avoiding such paradoxical results when dealing with complex data.
Keywords: scalar hierachizations; pairwise comparison; consistency; Condorcet paradox; sources of work satisfaction.
Cuvinte-cheie: ierarhizare pe scală; comparaţie în perechi; consistenţă; paradoxul lui Condorcet; sursele satisfacţiei cu munca.
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. IX, no. 2/2011.
Pratique religieuse, intolérance sociale et autoritarisme politique. Le renouveau religieux dans la Roumanie urbaine postcommuniste
Religious Practice, Social Intolerance and Political Authoritarianism. The Religious Revival in Urban Post-Communist Romania
Dragoş Dragoman
Vol IX, no. 2, 2011, pp. 96-112
Author adress: ‘Lucian Blaga’ University of Sibiu, 34 Calea Dumbrăvii, 550324 Sibiu, Romania.
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Abstract: The paper discusses the symbolic capital of Saxonness in the Romanian and Transylvanian public sphere and its uses as a political and cultural resource. I am examining the historical representations of Saxonness and the local, national and European context in which they are activated and re-signified, acquiring contemporary meanings. I focus on the mechanisms behind the political support of Klaus Johannis, representative of The German Democratic Forum in Romania, the Saxon mayor of the city of Sibiu (Transylvania), currently serving his third four-year long mandate. My analysis will attempt to capture the relation between his noteworthy success as elected local representative and the apparently contradictory local demographic evolution: a Saxon minority whose numbers dropped severely in the last decades, reaching a lower limit of under 2% of the total local population. The study explores some of the possible mechanisms that lie at the foundation of the contemporary political capital of Saxonness in Sibiu, by focusing on the salience of ethnicity in elections media discourse and in the collective imagery as reflected in the Ethnobarometer, supported by historical arguments of the “myth of the Saxon”.
Keywords: religiosité; intolérance sociale; autoritarisme; laïcité; orthodoxie; Roumanie.
Cuvinte-cheie: religiozitate; intoleranţă socială; autoritarism; laicitate; ortodoxie; România.