Necessity of increasing management efficiency and extending concerns regarding social policy in contemporary societies required, as an instrumental necessity, a better evaluation of economic-social prosperity and quality of life by means of social indicators. The application of social indicators...

In the last half of the century, significant technological, economic, demographic, political, and ideological changes took place; advanced democracies went to a process of deep economic restructurings. While universal social policies still provide for protection against predictable risks of a life...

Mother has been gone for six months to work abroad for me, so that I can have a better future. I miss her every day. Sometimes I tell myself it’s just a dream and when I wake up mother will be by my side. Dream or reality? Reality or dream? (A sixteen – years old adolescent). The paper shows...

The paper presents a synthesis of an analysis made with the personnel of the railway employees in Craiova and Timiș areas, regarding the opinions on various aspects involved in this field. The opinion viewed aspects such as: motivation of the career options for railway activity; advantages and...

In the present social/economic conditions of our country, the problem of objective analysis and research of the population’s everyday social life, of its wellbeing, of final consumption and possibilities of satisfying vital necessities, of the living standard and lifestyle, of the quality of...

The level of pensions in Romania has been a favourite topic of debate and analysis by experts and the media, since 1990 until now. Aging and reducing the number of jobs produce structural changes in socio-economic terms over the active and inactive population. The growing number of pensioners,...

This paper explores a few aspects of social and economic problems in the Jiu Valley, issues that have led to a priority need for the development of the share of social support network in this area. The needs of the population generated by economic and social problems existing in the Jiu Valley...

In the following, we make a general overview on social services provided by governmental and social institutions of NGOs in Romania and Hunedoara county in post-communist transition (2000-2009 period), before socio-economic crisis in Romania when the general trend was the development of social...

The sociological research was conducted in 2008 on a sample of 1612 adults, aiming at highlighting the socio-economic situation of the population in the Jiu Valley and, therefore, the problems addressing the local people. Failure or even the lack of financial resources is a consequence of lack...

Economy nowadays demonstrates that human society must eliminate any waste of time, space, intelligence. Only where this is not followed as stated, the crisis is more obvious. No matter how many disputes it created, we must agree that this economic crisis has alerted the whole world in all its...