Rezumate Sociologie Românescă
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XI, no. 1/2013, pp. 29-39.
Pro şi contra suspendării preşedintelui: referendum pe Facebook
For and against the Impeachment of the President: the Referendum on Facebook
Monica Pătruţ*
*Universitatea „Vasile Alecsandri” din Bacău, Facultatea de Litere, Str. Spiru Haret 8, C, Bacău. E-mail: Această adresă de email este protejată contra spambots. Trebuie să activați JavaScript pentru a o vedea..
Abstract (Rezumat în limba engleză): Facebook has proved to be an efficient means of political communication between citizens and politicians. On this virtual stage, political actors display their competence, consolidate their fame, mobilize their volunteers and attack their political opponents, encourage donations and debate some sensitive issues of the society. Citizens have the chance to get informed, to organize and to mobilize themselves for different causes or candidates, to participate in different events or elections campaigns. Our study will analyze the use of Facebook during the election campaign for the impeachment referendum (July 29, 2012). The analysis will focus on the posts made both by the pro-Băsescu citizens and by those that are against. The research questions addressed will focus on: a) the types of information posted by both opponent groups; b) the degree in which the Facebook accounts are used for acclaims, attacks or defenses; c) the time span during the election campaign in which „the dialogue” between the two groups gets more intense; d) the degree of interactivity between those who post the information and their „friends”. The research methods are functional analysis and content analysis. The two opponent groups sent their messages by the use of photographic images, verbal texts and advertising images. They used more attacks than acclaims, and had an intense activity during the middle and the end of the campaign. Their Facebook pages were interactive allowing the posting of appreciations, comments and the distribution of the materials posted.
Keywords:political communication; social media; referendum; 2012; Traian Băsescu.
Cuvinte cheie: comunicare politică; social media; referendum; 2012; Traian Băsescu.
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XI, no. 1/2013, pp. 40-51.
Candidaţii prezidenţiabili pe Facebook în timpul protestelor din ianuarie 2012
The Presidential Candidates’ Presence on Facebook during the January 2012 Protests
Antonio Momoc*
*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: Această adresă de email este protejată contra spambots. Trebuie să activați JavaScript pentru a o vedea..
Abstract (Rezumat în limba engleză): Raed Arafat’s resignation from his position of Secretary of State within the Ministry of Health on January 10th 2012 ignited the political crisis that took place in January-February 2012 and led to a series of street protests, which culminated when the Emil Boc Government resigned on February 9th 2012. The newness of these street movements that happened in Romania’s large cities consisted in the online mobilization of the protesters. The citizens showed online their solidarity with Raed Arafat, the medic who opposed the Government’s intentions to change the Sanitary System Law. According to the Secretary of State, the reform would have liberalized the health services, which would have affected the low income population, as well as the Public Emergency Ambulance Service. The social networks users organized in online communities of supporters, and the members of these groups settled and communicated online the time and meeting place where they gathered to shout anti-governmental and anti-presidential slogans every evening. The Romanian politicians, especially the potential candidates for the 2014 presidential elections, have not remained indifferent. Most of them reacted in an effort to improve their image and their level of trust among the protesters, who have organized themselves through social media. Using the content analysis method applied on the politicians’ official Facebook accounts, this article presents the quick reactions, and the image and communication strategies that the presidential candidates resorted to during the protests started on the social networks in January 2012.
Keywords: social media; online reputation management; political communication.
Cuvinte-cheie: social media; managementul reputaţiei online; comunicare politică.
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XI, no. 1/2013, pp. 66-83.
Sănătatea populaţiei şi accesul la serviciile medicale din România
Population Health Status and the Access to the Medical Services in Romania
Mariana Stanciu*
*Institutul de Cercetare a Calităţii Vieţii, Academia Română, Calea 13 Septembrie nr. 13, sector 5, Bucureşti. E-mail: Această adresă de email este protejată contra spambots. Trebuie să activați JavaScript pentru a o vedea..
Abstract: This article shows some of the contrasts among the Romanian quality of health services and that from European Community. Through its medical practices and critical health state of its population, Romania seems deeply dissociated from European Union realities in this respect. Since two decades, the Romanian public health system is situated at the tail-end of the European systems in what concerns social prevention, care for population’s health, application of some sanitary public programmes and performances of the medical services providing. And all these after about twenty years of health services reform, and multiplying of public health care spending of five times. The article includes two chapters focused on some health and demographic indicators, and on the existing difficulties in accessing public health services encountered by various disadvantaged categories of population – with an accent on some new research data concerning the access of the Rroma ethnic group to the public health services. There are used data published by Eurostat, but also from the national and territorial health statistics.
Keywords: indicators; causes; disadvantaged social cathegories.
Cuvinte-cheie: indicatori; cauze; categorii sociale defavorizate.
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XI, no. 1/2013, pp. 52-65.
Social Media PR as a Catalyst: Balancing the Political Pressures to Communicate “with” or “to” the Public
Dragoş Lucian Ivan*
*National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Strada Povernei nr. 6, Sector 1, Bucureşti. E-mail: Această adresă de email este protejată contra spambots. Trebuie să activați JavaScript pentru a o vedea..
Abstract: Sensuous public relations practices, the activity through which dialogue and communication is shaped, transmitted and disseminated. In its different ways, PR conceptualizes societal evolution as inter-woven with social practices; and those practices, in turn, shape its activity. PR arises among distinctive social groups and institutions, between a political figure and its constituency, on the basis, and as a response to given conditions and relationships. It is in the presence of these conditions Romanian PR practitioners have to handle and respond to the conditions of existence. We engage in quantitative and qualitative research Romanian PR practitioners so as to understand the impact of social media in Romanian PR political campaigns. We seek to place PR practitioners within a new society conceived as a complex expressive entity with new demands out of its political figures, and in consequence, in need of new PR instruments and solutions. There are, of course, some unresolved problems and some new threats for both Romanian PR practitioners and Romanian political figures, not least of which is the unevenness of dialogue between public and political figure. We alert to the assumption about the channels of communication with the young community, apparently disengaged from civic participation and disillusioned by political figures.
Keywords: social media; communication; politics; public relations.
Cuvinte-cheie: social media; comunicare; politică; relaţii publice.
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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XI, no. 1/2013, pp. 84-102.
Topografii ale trecutului: structurarea şi restructurarea conştiinţei istorice româneşti prin manualele naţionale de istorie
Topographies of the Past: Structuring and Restructuring Romanian Historical Consciousness through National History Textbooks
Mihai Stelian Rusu*
*Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Facultatea de Sociologie şi Asistenţă Socială, B-dul 21 Dec. 1989 Nr. 128, Cluj Napoca 400604. E-mail: Această adresă de email este protejată contra spambots. Trebuie să activați JavaScript pentru a o vedea.; Această adresă de email este protejată contra spambots. Trebuie să activați JavaScript pentru a o vedea..
Abstract: Starting from the assumption that the social management of historical time is a powerful tool in the political definition of reality, this paper analyzes how the history of the Romanian people has been periodized through the course of time. The central argument states that the partitioning system used to periodize the past harbors a hidden agenda, or a particular ideological „implicature”, that can be brought to light by analyzing the temporal watersheds selected as defining moments in the history of that community. The paper analyzes the social logic of periodization operating within the Romania national history textbooks, revealing how socio-political conditions determine the temporal structuring of the past. Moreover, it shows how social change, and especially the change of the socio-political regime, leads to a revertebration of the past’s symbolic backbone. Dramatic social and political change results in reconfiguring the formal structure of the collective consciousness concerning the past, within which specific events of Romanian history acquire their meaning. In conclusion, the study shows that, although resorting to a system of periodization is indeed a cognitive prerequisite for understanding the past, the reality of the past does not come with an already-there articular structure, so that „carving the (past’s) reality at its joints”, as Plato put it, is not a possibility.
Keywords: collective memory; periodization of history; Romanian history; sociology of memory; politics of memory.
Cuvinte-cheie: memorie colectivă; periodizarea istoriei; istoria României; sociologia memoriei; politicile memoriei.