Social autism, autarchic individualism and transgenerational value patterns in contemporary Romania Cover Image

Autism social, individualism autarhic şi tipare valorice transgeneraţionale în România contemporană
Social autism, autarchic individualism and transgenerational value patterns in contemporary Romania

Author(s): Alin Gavreliuc
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: EDITURA POLIROM S.A.

Summary/Abstract: Highlighting a symbolic interactionism perspective, the synthesis of the present article focused on the Banat identitary dynamics of the last two decades argues for the transgenerational nature of the main attitudinal and axiological patterns assumed by the inhabitants of this region, articulated around of assistential and disengagement values, reconfiguring the cultural dimensions specific for the organizational area. Thus, commencing with Hofstede’s theory, we reorganize the semantic area of the central concept, called in the Romanian organizational cultures ‘autarchic individualism’ (fatalistic, opportunistic, with inter-individual negotiated normativity). Moreover, the final part of synthesis examines the articulation of implicit norms in public life, followed by behavioral scenarios, describing the pathology of identitary symptomatology, called social autism. This concept has been analogically presented with the individual pathology, like a group process that produces a social subject characterized by retractility, self-exclusion and inappetence for communitarian solidarization.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 26
  • Page Range: 25-47
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Romanian