Psychosociological perspectives on life satisfactions: generational differences in rural vs. urban areas
Perspective psihosociologice asupra satisfacţiilor vieţii: Diferenţe generaţionale în rural şi urban

Summary/Abstract: Every large period of life was born specifically theoretization and models, connected with disciplinary goals in the one hand, and particularly kind of society on the other hand. Individuals are not just an age category, but they are a multiple role-set in their everyday life. Social constructionism includes a number of well-established perspectives, among them phenomenology, symbolic interactionism, and ethnomethodology (Holstein & Gubrium, 1994). We discusses the evolution and the themes of constructivist orientation (subjective orientation, a world of meanings, contextuality) and exemplifies related empirical work from these constructionist viewpoints (identity management, social worlds, naratives of age, using age to construct context). As constructionist perspectives continue to develop across this continuum, the heart of the orientation to everyday life has been and will continue to be focused on the question of how social categories and social forms develop and enter into experience. Connected with this asumption, postmodern orientation focused on how the interplay between reality-constituting activities and variable conditions of possibility provide the meaningful organization of everyday realities. The authors like Featherstone and Hepworth (1991) concern about the problem of personal identity (including age-identity) in postmodern life of western societies, in which collective age-related norms is seen disolved in individuals ones. Our research are focused on age representations (satisfactions and insatisfactions) in Romanian rural and urban areas. Using the method of semistructured interview (narratives themselves in their own life histories) and thematic analysis, we find significant differences concern „philosophy of life”, contruction ways of the social world, and representations about the semnification of life stages, by some of sociodemographical characteristics of the subjects.

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