Issue Number 11-12 of the Journal “Transilvania”, Sibiu, 2013
Journal Title: Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology - Year 2013, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
My review presents a special double number of the journal “Transilvania”, focused on alternative ways of presenting the Sociological School of Bucharest. The coordinator on this issue was professor Zoltán Rostás. This issue of the publication has a twofold aim: firstly, and in a declarative way, is to give a more realistic and detailed view of the founder and leader of the Sociological School of Bucharest, Dimitrie Gusti, but also of his main disciples and collaborators. This detailed view gives a more accurate understanding of the characteristics of the scientific life in the interwar period regarding the applied social sciences. This accurate presentation of the period and the characters has a declared aim: to clarify, to demystify and to rationalize the role of each member participating in the theoretical and institutional construction of the Sociological School of Bucharest. Furthermore, in the opening article, professor Zoltán Rostás argues that as the current, meaning post 1989 social history, has succeeded to give a distorted picture about the members of the Sociological School of Bucharest, the aim of this volume is to present these persons through their activities, putting away the churn today’s desirable values. The second aim, while not explicit, but, to my mind was also an important aspect of the presented volume, was to show the diversity of the social phenomena that were analyzed from a sociological perspective by the members of the Sociological School of Bucharest. The main characteristic of the articles in the volume is to argue with one particular concept or idea of the existing cliché regarding the Sociological School of Dimitrie Gusti and to argue in which point they are correct or, on the contrary, irrelevant.
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Balázs Telegdy
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