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Categorie: Rezumate Sociologie Românescă

Publicat: 06 Decembrie 2013

Accesări: 4204

Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XI, no. 3/2013, pp. 3-7.

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Introduction

Adela Popa

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Categorie: Rezumate Sociologie Românescă

Publicat: 06 Decembrie 2013

Accesări: 6062

Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XI, no. 4/2013, pp. 7-39.

Measuring Change, Sketching Futures: a Different Approach to Quality-of-Life Studies

Filomena Maggino, Carolina Facioni*

*Dept. of Statistics, Informatics, Applications “G.Parenti” (DiSIA) - University of Florence, Italy. Email: Această adresă de email este protejată contra spambots. Trebuie să activați JavaScript pentru a o vedea.; National Institute of Statistics - ISTAT, Italy. E-mail: Această adresă de email este protejată contra spambots. Trebuie să activați JavaScript pentru a o vedea..

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Abstract: The aim of the paper is to show how the variety of approaches to study social change may result in a challenging complexity for the social scientist, starting from the difficulty of defining the concept of “change” itself and managing it through observed data. This is particularly true in presence of complex phenomena, such as those defining and composing the quality of life. What should be pointed out is that quality of life studies not only are focused on the present time but have also long term perspectives. This represents the link between studies on quality of life and forecasting. When applied to the field of quality of life, the typical logical approach to forecasts, based upon inferential statistics, could reveal its limits. Those limits are related to different aspects: e.g., the forms of relationships between different aspects of the phenomenon, which can be linear and non-linear; the dimensionality of phenomenon, which can turn out to be very complex; the causality, which could be direct or indirect; the entity of change, which implies the idea that also small change can have great impact; the perspective of observation, which can be internal or external and local or global. Consequently, the study of change related to quality of life needs, in addition to the traditional statistical tools as well as the tradition of social indicators, a different approach. Although the Futures Studies are not a proper science, nevertheless their approach to social research may ensure the requested accuracy of a scientific forecasting process.

Keywords: quality of life; forecasting; futures studies.

Cuvinte-cheie : calitatea vieţii; predicţii; direcţii viitoare de studiu.

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Scris de ARS

Categorie: Rezumate Sociologie Românescă

Publicat: 06 Decembrie 2013

Accesări: 4282

Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XI, no. 4/2013, pp. 3-6.

„Societatea bună” o nouă provocare pentru sociologie

“The Good Society” a New Challenge for Sociology 

Cătălin Zamfir*

*Institutul de Cercetare a Calităţii Vieţii, Academia Română, Calea 13 Septembrie 13, sector 5, Bucureşti. E-mail: Această adresă de email este protejată contra spambots. Trebuie să activați JavaScript pentru a o vedea..

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Categorie: Rezumate Sociologie Românescă

Publicat: 06 Decembrie 2013

Accesări: 6708

Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XI, no. 4/2013, pp. 40-54.

Bureaucratic Spleen: Europeanization and Resistance to Change in Romanian Public Administration

Amanda Bosovcki*

*Babeș-Bolyai University, 1 Kogălniceanu Street, Cluj-Napoca. E-mail: Această adresă de email este protejată contra spambots. Trebuie să activați JavaScript pentru a o vedea..

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Abstract: In this paper, we analyse the way in which positive communication of European knowledge produces a series of perverse effects at the level of Romanian public administration, effects that take the form of an avoidance strategy. In other words, confronted with certain change requirements, Romanian public institutions react by decoupling the structural aspects from their specific activities. This form of resistance is unconscious, passive and continuously interiorized through the relationship and interaction with the elements of change. Instead of dislocating an inertial state of mind which is specific to the ‘iron cage’ of bureaucracy, the positive communication regarding europeanization and the formal embracement of all its components and regulations, does nothing else but consolidate and even resuscitate this state of sufficiency and passive compliance. In order to better understand the Romanian public administration’s reaction to change, we introduce the concept of bureaucratic spleen. This oxymoronic concept points out the apparent paradox of simultaneous acceptance and rejection, change and resistance to change, and that of a cognitive tacit state of mind that is antagonistic to its own explicit dimension, all of these manifested along an emotional background of melancholy and assumed sufficiency, in the context of a major change process, the Europeanization of Romanian public administration.

Keywords: organizational communication; public administration; perverse effects; Europeanization; knowledge management; resistance to change.

Cuvinte-cheie: comunicare organizaţională; administraţie publică; efecte perverse; europenizare; management al cunoaşterii; rezistenţă la schimbare.