FAMILY AND RELIGION: TWO FORMS OF ROMANIAN SOCIAL CAPITAL
FAMILY AND RELIGION: TWO FORMS OF ROMANIAN SOCIAL CAPITAL

Summary/Abstract: The objective of this article is to emphasize the importance of family and religion from a social perspective in today’s Romanian society. As social manifestations, family and religion are perennial forms of human manifestations in general throughout history. The degree, the intensity and the forms in which they crystallize at a certain historical moment in a society put it in the light and offer a comparison term between this and other societies. At present, the research of the relevance that family and religion have in the Romanian society represents an opportunity to clarify it in the context of the European society, by comparison, at least, with the relevance that these manifestations have in the society in other countries. In this article, there are brought to discussions the various studies and research at European and Romanian level regarding the relevance of family and religion in a European and Romanian social context. Their study in the context of Romanian society is relevant also due to the particularity of Romanian society as a transition society from a totalitarian society, controlled by the state in the communist regime, in which they intervened massively in terms of the organization of the family and the expression of religious beliefs, to an open society of democratic type in which the individual is given the freedom of option in respect of the organization of his family and religious beliefs.

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