Rezumate Sociologie Românescă

Sociologie Românească, Vol. VIII, no. 3/2010, pp. 24-38.

 


 

 SR_3_2010_copertaViaţa cotidiană în închisoare Putere, ierarhii sociale, sexualitate

Daily life in prison. Power, social hierarchy, sexuality

Petronel Dobrică*

 

*University of Bucharest

 

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Abstract: The article is the result of field research conducted "Deculturation as effect of detention. Resocialization in the context of the progressive and regressive regime of prison sentence executio" (Dobrică, 2008). Starting from one of the central features of the penitentiary institution, which is to be both formal organization and community of residence (Goffman, 1961), we analyzed the prison as "society in society" (Sykes, 1958). The main descriptors used in the presentation of daily life of prisoners were sexuality and social hierarchies, as spaces of the power.

Keywords: everyday life, imprisonment, deculturaţie, status, social hierarchy, sexuality.

Cuvinte-cheie: viaţă cotidiană, închisoare, deculturaţie, status, ierarhie socială, sexualitate.


Sociologie Românească, Vol. VIII, no. 3/2010, pp. 64-70.

 


 

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Corp şi încarcerare: schiţă sociologică despre tatuaje în penitenciar

Body and incarceration: a sociological exploration of tatoos in the penitentiary

Fidelie Kalambayi, Gabriel Jderu*

 

 

*University of Bucharest

 

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Abstract: This article is a sociological sketch that aims at presenting an analysis of the practice of tattooing in detention, based on the idea that within the total institution that is the penitentiary, the individuals build their social framework through the body. The justification is sustained through an analysis of statistical data from a series of bio-behavioral surveys conducted in Romanian penitentiaries during the period 2007-2009.

Keywords: body modifications, tattoo, prison tattoo.

Cuvinte-cheie: modificări corporale, tatuaje, tatuaje in penitenciar.

 

Sociologie Românească, Vol. VIII, no. 2/2010, pp. 161-175.

 


 

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Reprezentativitatea etnografică şi simbolismul tematic al artizanatului ţărănesc din România

Ethnographic representativity and thematic symbolism of peasant artisanship in Romania

Marin Constantin*

 

 *Institute of Sociology "Dimitrie Gusti", Romanian Academy of Science

 

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Abstract: The article seeks to describe and interpret the ethnographic representativeness and the craft symbolism that are associated with the folk artisanship in the 2000s Romania. Two major research questions are approached, dealing with the arguments, ideas, and meanings according to which 1) the peasant artisans' work and artifacts are claimed to be referential for local or regional communities, ethnic groups, and a national value system, and 2) the same craftsmen's decorative themes and motifs come to be conceived, displayed, and "negotiated" as a cultural continuum between local traditions and exogenous criteria about what the "folk culture" is. Methodology of my research basically relies on an ethnographic research, which, in terms of oral-history interviews and participant observation, I conducted in 2005 in the framework of several artisanship fairs in Bucharest, Timişoara, Sibiu, and Suceava. The most important conclusions the current paper outlines are concerned with the permanent reinterpretation of folk crafts and artifacts among peasant groups and remote clienteles and academic specialists, and the synthesis operating between customary, personal, and public contributions to the contemporary folk arts.

Keywords: ethnographic representativeness, craft symbolism.

Cuvinte cheie: reprezentativitate etnografică, simbolism meşteşugăresc.

 

Sociologie Românească, Vol. VIII, no. 3/2010, pp. 3-4.

 


 

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Devianţă, delincvenţă şi reacţie socială. Marginalitate şi închisoare

Delinquency and social reaction. Marginality and prison

Petronel Dobrică*

 

*University of Bucharest

 

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Sociologie Românească, Vol. VIII, no. 2/2010, pp. 145-160.

 


 

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Capitalul social informal şi formal; modalităţi şi procese de întrepătrundere

Formal and informal social capital - interrelationship modalities and processes

Petru Iluț, Cristina Tîrhaș*

 

 *University "Babeş-Bolyai", Cluj-Napoca

 

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Abstract: Research in connection with social capital is very much connected with forms and specific indices (analyses are concerned or with the social capital understood as a form of participation and trust in institutions and organizations; or-on the contrary, analyses accentuate the role of non-institutional networks). In our research, we tried to investigate the conjunction between these two forms of social capital, by studying the dynamics of flux between them. The pilot research of the paper starts from the intuitive hypothesis that in our country - in the context of erosion of trust in public institutions, especially political institutions, doubled by the individualization, the informal social capital has turned inside, towards the enlarged family, respectively first grade relatives. In general terms, the hypothesis of turning inside can constitute both a vicious (the number of contacts diminishes and so does the network) and a virtuous (the intensity of relatives and trust are more accentuated) event. Preliminary research has confirmed both the hypothesis of vicious and virtuous turning. In the final part we employ an analytical view concerning the role of intergenerational exchanges in the enlarged family, especially from Transylvanian, and through some schematic figures we illustrate the findings. Finally, based on our quantitative and qualitative data, we formulated some conclusions and openings.

Keywords: formal social capital; informal social capital; structural social capital; contextual social capital; virtuous turning of social capital; urban-rural differences; intergenerational exchanges.

Cuvinte cheie: capital social formal; capital social informal; capital social circumstanţial; spirala virtuoasă a capitalului social; diferenţe rural-urban; schimburi intergeneraţionale.