COMMUNION: A WAY TO RECONSIDER COMMUNICATION IN COMMUNITY AND SOCIETY
COMMUNION: A WAY TO RECONSIDER COMMUNICATION IN COMMUNITY AND SOCIETY

Summary/Abstract: Communication, as a way to investigate the social universe, has passed the boundaries established between sciences. Today, this perspective – ‘one cannot not communicate’ – has become a necessity to consider the epistemological world of human sciences. Therefore, communication has become a relevant perspective to investigate the social life. In order to perceive communication effectively we must interpret it in a deeper level than the conventional epistemological point of view of communication theory, and in close liaison with the social frame where it occurs, meaning the community and the society. In Romania, the distinction between communication and communion is representative and made from a philosophical point of view (Noica, 1987). The philosophical dimension opened by Noica, filled with a rich sociological signification, can be interpreted as being in correlation with Tönnies theory referring to community and society. By defining the concepts of communion (in Romanian, “communion”), community and society as correlative concepts, we develop the idea that defines the social reality as a whole in continuous change. By developing the differences and similarities between communication and communion we can reveal the interdeterminations between community and society comprehending the role of communion and communication as terms that represent the essence of social reality. Communication and communion have the functional role to create the social system, political system etc. Therefore is an imperative to analyze the culture and the society - the main frame of the social reality.This paper aims to reveal the interdeterminations between community and society comprehending the role of communion and communication as terms that represent the community and the society revealing also the culture and the civilization as the main social frame.

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