JOTTINGS ON THE HISTORY OF ROMANIAN SOCIOLOGY

Social sciences are, usually, in the uncomfortable position of having to earn their scientific credentials in order to be able to intervene in politics. In the interwar period, Romanian sociology put itself, with remarkable few afterthoughts, in the service of the nation-state. During the communist...

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Published inStudia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai. Sociologia Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 135 - 149
Main Author Cotoi, Călin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cluj-Napoca Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai 01.06.2011
Babes-Bolyai University, STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABES-BOLYAI
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History of sociology
Legitimacy
Political sociology
Politics
Romania
Scholarships
Social history
Social Sciences
Social theory
Sociological analysis
Sociological research
Sociology
Romania
ideology
multilevel models
hegemony
MarxismLeninism
social sciences
science
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Summary:Social sciences are, usually, in the uncomfortable position of having to earn their scientific credentials in order to be able to intervene in politics. In the interwar period, Romanian sociology put itself, with remarkable few afterthoughts, in the service of the nation-state. During the communist regime in Romania, authoritarian politics of science were imposed in the area of social expertise. Sociologists responded by silently subverting the hierarchies of scientificity and scholarship legitimacy. Paradoxically, this subversion is one of the roots of the inability of present day sociology to connect, in a meaningful way, with social theory .
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ISSN:2066-0464
1224-8703
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