The role that the highly skilled emigrants or Diasporas play in scientific and technological developments in the country of origin is still poorly understood and studied, although it is extremely important, due to the importance of science and technology for improving the human condition and...

Romanian democracy, newly born after the 1989 events, has a rather short electoral confrontation tradition. In this context, the media coverage of the 2009 presidential election has a conflict specificity never expressed to this extent. One of the main actors of the public sphere, the media,...

The article analyzes the significance of the concepts of “Europe” and “European integration” in the Romanian public discourses, namely the way in which the significance of these terms were reconfigured over time, according to the development of socio-historical contexts and themes. The...

Awareness with respect to others is strictly related to the type of interpersonal relations which persons maintain within a given culture. However, this awareness can also show certain deficiencies in modern societies (Augé, 1994). In this case, the school may have a role to play with respect...

The internet offers young people plenty of possibilities, but according to the"more is more" hypothesis, online opportunities and risks tend to go together. We look for the features of online stressful situations to which 9-16 years old Romanian young people are exposed, and we follow the way...

The author sets out to present the evolution of the population in Osica de Sus commune in the period between 1871 and 2009, with a focus on the evolution of the main demographic processes which occurred and continue to occur in the contemporary period.

This article starts with a presentation of the role played in society by culture in general and by the cultural industries, in particular, complemented by a detailed definition of the concept of cultural industry. The more extensive part of the work is dedicated to the analysis of data referring...

I believe that recent theoretical developments on corruption from the field of social anthropology can shed light on various processes that communities confront in different areas. This paper focuses on practices related to forestry, trying to show different mechanisms by which corruption might...

In this study, we identify the emergence of the European system of reference, irrespective of its narrative-argumentative configuration, in the program-articles of the first Romanian periodicals issued in the 19th century. Starting from the premise that the European argument appears with greater...

A prevailing paradigm of the social sciences starting with the 90s, which is used to account for the new perspective on social-cultural changes in a world passing from the industrial order to the post-industrial and informational order, is known as globalization. This paradigm is acknowledged by...