To Cure, Uplift and Ennoble the Village”
Militant Sociology in the Romanian Countryside, 1934–1938
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12148574 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raluca Mușat (New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 353-375 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | East European Politics and Societies and Cultures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0888-3254 • E-ISSN: 1533-8371 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0888325412467455 |
| OpenAlex | W2112213105 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
Focusing on the project of cultural work ( muncă culturală), involving hundreds of university students from different disciplines going to the countryside to study rural life and to aid its modernisation, this article examines the prominent role sociology played in King Carol II’s Romania as a scientific tool for planning rural reform and as a practical project of mass social organisation. Designed and launched by the sociologist Dimitrie Gusti in 1934, cultural work competed with the fascist Legion of the Archangel Michael’s work camps, providing an “official” project of rural modernisation, meant to bridge the gap between the educated youth and the peasantry and increase support for the King. Largely ignored by scholars of this period, this project offers a new perspective on the country’s social, political, and intellectual history, one that concentrates on the “rise of the social” in Romania, to which the transformation of the peasantry was central
Bridge (graph theory · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Rural area · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2021 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |