Sociology in Communist Romania: An Institutional and Biographical Overview
Suppressed on ideological grounds, banned as academic discipline, and dismantled as scientific infrastructure in the first postwar years, sociology was re-institutionalized in communist Romania during the 1960s, largely on political grounds. Subsequently, the discipline developed and augmented withi...
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| description | Suppressed on ideological grounds, banned as academic discipline, and dismantled as scientific infrastructure in the first postwar years, sociology was re-institutionalized in communist Romania during the 1960s, largely on political grounds. Subsequently, the discipline developed and augmented within an impressive scientific infrastructure - several university departments were established, research centres and facilities initiated, and specialized periodicals issued. Still, the prosperous period of Romanian sociology concluded after just one decade, through another political decision, which confined the study of sociology to post-graduate specialization and restricted research. My paper explores sociology’s institutional infrastructure, as it was established after the discipline’s renewal, focusing on the institutions created, but also on the biographical analysis of those involved within these processes. My paper will address the matter from a historical perspective, discussing the developments and the evolutions in the field by circumscribing to the political, cultural, and socio-economic contexts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-852569b42ee94d99992b8ed5335a48892022-12-22T01:10:34ZengSciendoStudia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia2066-04642017-06-01621658410.1515/subbs-2017-0005subbs-2017-0005Sociology in Communist Romania: An Institutional and Biographical OverviewBosomitu Ștefan0The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of Romanian Exile, Bucharest, RomaniaSuppressed on ideological grounds, banned as academic discipline, and dismantled as scientific infrastructure in the first postwar years, sociology was re-institutionalized in communist Romania during the 1960s, largely on political grounds. Subsequently, the discipline developed and augmented within an impressive scientific infrastructure - several university departments were established, research centres and facilities initiated, and specialized periodicals issued. Still, the prosperous period of Romanian sociology concluded after just one decade, through another political decision, which confined the study of sociology to post-graduate specialization and restricted research. My paper explores sociology’s institutional infrastructure, as it was established after the discipline’s renewal, focusing on the institutions created, but also on the biographical analysis of those involved within these processes. My paper will address the matter from a historical perspective, discussing the developments and the evolutions in the field by circumscribing to the political, cultural, and socio-economic contexts.https://doi.org/10.1515/subbs-2017-0005communist romaniahistory of social sciencessociologyinstitutionalization |
| spellingShingle | Bosomitu Ștefan Sociology in Communist Romania: An Institutional and Biographical Overview Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia communist romania history of social sciences sociology institutionalization |
| title | Sociology in Communist Romania: An Institutional and Biographical Overview |
| title_full | Sociology in Communist Romania: An Institutional and Biographical Overview |
| title_fullStr | Sociology in Communist Romania: An Institutional and Biographical Overview |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sociology in Communist Romania: An Institutional and Biographical Overview |
| title_short | Sociology in Communist Romania: An Institutional and Biographical Overview |
| title_sort | sociology in communist romania an institutional and biographical overview |
| topic | communist romania history of social sciences sociology institutionalization |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/subbs-2017-0005 |
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