Sociologie Românească, Vol. III, no. 1/2005, pp. 182-193.
Dezvoltarea comunitară: de la relații familiare la relații active și parteneriate
Community development: from familiarity relationships to active and partnership relationships
Mircea Agabrian
Abstract (Rezumat în limba engleză): In this article we approach the way in which communities can prosper and develop through their people's personal development and increasing participation in a variety of types of active relationships that transcend the familiar relationships of the type everyone knows everyone and everybody helps everybody. We argue in favour of the dominant conception according to which the community resides in those particular human relationships that represent the basis of organizational and institutional partnerships that contribute to the establishment of strong community networks, and, implicitly, to the construction of social capital. Based on this, we demonstrate that school-family-community partnerships transform schools into centers of community life, thus illustrating democracy in action in order to solve local problems.