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DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS AND DEPOPULATION IN RURAL AREAS
DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS AND DEPOPULATION IN RURAL AREAS

Author(s): Vasile Gogonea
Subject(s): Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Demography and human biology, Gerontology, Rural and urban sociology, Migration Studies
Published by: Ediktura Beladi
Keywords: demographic crisis; migration; aging population; collective memory; rural communities; demographic osmosis; socio-demographic processes; migration phenomena;

Summary/Abstract: The presented article establishes a series of essential coordinates regarding the demographic crisis and the depopulation in the rural area of our country, drawing attention to the fact that the Romanian village has always proved a landmark of our troubled history, that hidden secret of the soul of our Romanian nation. It was emphasized that Romania gives us the image of a country with an ever poorer population, increasingly old and more prone to migration to other countries, in search of a job, this being true, especially in the case of young people. In this way, a negative natural increase is recorded, which leads to the capture of phenomena and socio-demographic processes that attract attention and concern, especially when the results of the population census are underlined and interpreted. It becomes increasingly obvious that the villages, with their windows in which the collective memory breaks, seem to plunge into a valley of desolate carelessness, when impossibility seems to have included those who can, but will not, like those who they want, but cannot do something concrete for the benefit of the community. This causes the majority of the population to lose their identity and be reduced to the indoctrinated herd state and oriented in a specific direction to mass psychology.

  • Issue Year: XV/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 204-210
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English