In this work, we aim to present the way in which the "hora", as a form of manifestation of folk culture, retains, in the rural area of Northern Mehedinţi jurisdiction, certain elements of the pagan forms of manifestation of pre-Christian religiousness - dating back to the Geto-dacians -...

This article aims to provide an overview of the working conditions of high-skilled employees in Hungary, by resorting to comparisons with the other Central and Eastern European countries, based on research carried out by the author during a three-month placement (August 1st-October 31st 2011) at...

In this study, I intend to identify a possible way of gaining knowledge on the Romanian religious phenomenon. The scientific approach used for this purpose was the comparative analysis between two methodologies that differ first of all from the point of view of their temporal location: the...

This exploratory comparative study compares how police officers belonging to two different cultures regard various types of police corruption, how severely they think transgressions should be punished, and how willing they are to report infractions. In order to measure police integrity and to...

The article aims to provide a description with respect to values among young Romanians, generally speaking, but also with respect to social relations and religion or spirituality. Survey data from two major researches - the European Values Study, and Social condition and expectations of youth in...

Unlike large enterprises, SMEs, especially innovative ones, face increased difficulties in the attempt to obtain financing due to the specificity of their activity. This situation calls for the involvement of the state by means of polices aiming at providing support to this sector, and...

This article presents an analysis of the Romanian rural areas from the perspective of certain indicators related to agricultural economy, employment and the quality of human resources, insisting on several of the significant problems that are slowing down rural development in Romania. These...

The study analyses the media coverage practices concerning the "new diaspora" - the migration of the Romanian workforce in the countries of the European Union. The main research question relates to how the media builds the image of the migrant, as well as of the emerging forms in which the...

The article presents a critical review of how media news tells stories of moralsuffering related to the new Romanian diaspora (emerged after the EU enlargement). These "news stories" invite the individual spectators to become public actors of a "community of news". The author argues that due to...

In this article, we present an analysis of the data retrieved from the Survey on Income and Living Conditions. As such, a gender-based poverty study was carried out, starting from the evolution of global taxes, together with factors that can explain the differences between the poverty variable...