The village, column of resistance, in retrospect of sociological monographs
Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: In general, in the Republic of Moldova, from one year to the next, 3-5 thousand fewer children are born than adult people die. Thus, every year, a village of medium or large proportions disappears irrevocably. This process is influenced by several factors. Sociological research proves that in the Republic of Moldova, after three decades of independence and sovereignty, there are no clear relationships between education, occupation, income, property, way and lifestyle; society is divided and the population confused, divided on political criteria. Economic and social inequalities are manifested geographically on a regional and local scale, in social units, either villages or cities: and in all areas – according to income, consumption, distribution of property, as well as according to available human and social capital. The phenomenon of large inequalities is a real threat to the social and general security of the Republic of Moldova. The society that escaped from the tutelage of the Soviet Union and felt the wind of freedom is trying to find the healing air of truth and justice. In search of the path to well-being, the collective consciousness turns to the past. In the sovereign and independent state of the Republic of Moldova, it is becoming a habit for scientists and culture to revive the memory of the interwar village, to reconstruct pictures of history and social history. In general, many authors of today's history and local social history works do not know the principles of rural space research elaborated by the Bucharest Sociological School, laid out for everyone to understand in the treatise "Guidelines for sociological monographs", published in 1940 under the patronage of D. Gusti, because they had no way to know them. Thus, in the Republic of Moldova, works dedicated to local history have appeared and continue to be published, which are interesting through the way they present the social reality and the elements of resistance of the localities in the face of the vicissitudes that have befallen them.
DOI: 10.59295/crs2024.10
Author: Andrei Dumbraveanu
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4405803141