OBȘTE AND STATE IN THE TRADITIONAL ROMANIAN VILLAGE COMMUNITIES. A STUDY OF SOCIAL HISTORY Cover Image

OBŞTE ŞI STAT ÎN SATELE DEVĂLMAŞE ROMÂNEŞTI. UN STUDIU DE ISTORIE SOCIALĂ
OBȘTE AND STATE IN THE TRADITIONAL ROMANIAN VILLAGE COMMUNITIES. A STUDY OF SOCIAL HISTORY

Author(s): Cristinel Trandafir
Subject(s): Social Philosophy, Sociology, Politics and society, Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: political crisis; statism; democracy; devalmaş village; tributal system; political values; freedom; equality; property;

Summary/Abstract: In this article, we will identify some of the socio‐cultural historical sources of the current tensions and political‐administrative blockages of the romanian society, tensions and blockages that favored the appearance and spread of antidemocratic and illiberal conception and behavior among citizens and and members of the romanian political class. How these statist and anti-democratic tensions, blockages and excesses emerge? This question is all the more significant as we discover in the Romanian past a long democratic tradition developed at the level of the rural communities, more precisely in the level of the free romanian villages, village communities that constituted for a long time the basis of the Romanian life and culture.

  • Issue Year: 2/2017
  • Issue No: 40
  • Page Range: 184-200
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Romanian