Schimbarea socială în colectivitățile rurale și efectele ei asupra mentalităților (o analiză de sociologie regională)

• Main Author: Carmen Bulzan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Expert Projects 2004-12-01
• Series: Sociologie Românească
• Online Access: https://arsociologie.ro/revistasociologieromaneasca/sr/article/view/913

The village life after 1989 has changed. Being liable to some processes that weren't familiar to it (collectivization, urbanization, reformation), by legislative, administrative and political ways, a redirection to something else, an abolition of what it was and desperately wants to be something else these were always tried. The circumstances are always, always changing... Another order is subtly, perversly infiltrating in a world that still keeps the tracks of the authentic and the unbroken. The Romanian villager, oscillating between being an owner (alone) but also (together) with others, with the community to which he belongs, is changing step by step his customs: of producing, of consuming, of living, transforming them, maybe just apparently but not fundamentally. He remains anchored to the collective mental of his traditions and customs, which he gives up only circumstantially. Another world of values is revealed to him, a world at which he can affiliate only formally. The village world gathers nowadays two worlds: an apparent one and an essential one. A glissando of the „inherited” world towards the „real” one in which he has been thrown against his will and from which one does not known yet what it is to be born. Between hope and connection, between desire and unacceptance, between faith and salvation, between dream and reality lays the world of the post-revolutionary village in the Mehedinți county.