Culturalization in uniform. Articles and documents on the Social Service Law 1938-1939. Anthology by Zoltán Rostás and Dragoș Sdrobiș. Preface by Zoltán Rostás, afterword by Dragoș Sdrobiș. Paideia Publishing House, Bucharest, 2017 Cover Image

Culturalizare în uniformă. Articole și documente privind Legea Serviciului Social 1938-1939. Antologie de Zoltán Rostás și Dragoș Sdrobiș. Prefață de Zoltán Rostás, postfață de Dragoș Sdrobiș. Editura Paideia, București, 2017
Culturalization in uniform. Articles and documents on the Social Service Law 1938-1939. Anthology by Zoltán Rostás and Dragoș Sdrobiș. Preface by Zoltán Rostás, afterword by Dragoș Sdrobiș. Paideia Publishing House, Bucharest, 2017

Author(s): Maria Larionescu
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Book-Review
Published by: Editura Eikon
Keywords: Dimitrie Gusti; Sociological School of Bucharest; monographical teams; Royal student teams; the peasant issue; cultural action;

Summary/Abstract: The volume includes an anthology of studies, laws, documents, investigations, and discourses concerning “social engineering” and the young student population, aiming to clarify multiple misunderstandings and myths concerning the Social Service Law, 1938, both from the respective historical period and from recent debates. To this purpose, authors employ a triple strategy of clarifying this piece of legislation: 1) an analysis of the Euro-Atlantic and national contexts of the interbellum period that frames the social service initiatives; 2) connecting the Law to the great public debates of the XIXth century, concerning the life of peasants in the context of village modernization; 3) integrating the experiences of cultural work in villages in the broader, comprehensive vision of the Sociological School of Bucharest, specifying them as a deepening of village modernization on four dimensions: culture of work, of health, of mind and of soul.

  • Issue Year: 19/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 244-251
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian