SOCIAL SERVICE – COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT AND TOOL FOR SUPPORTING THE PEASANT FAMILY
SOCIAL SERVICE – COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT AND TOOL FOR SUPPORTING THE PEASANT FAMILY

Summary/Abstract: The present article aims to analyze in an objective way the Social Service, institution created by the Romanian sociologist Dimitrie Gusti in 1938, from the perspective of the purpose for which it was established, and less from the perspective of the context in which it was born and the political and ideological disputes surrounding it. Also, due to our concerns for the family institution, we intend to identify to what extent Social Service was a rural community development project directed primarily at protecting and supporting peasant family. If the main purpose of the Service was „improving Romanian villages”, it remains to be analyzed to what extent this action targeted the social unity of family and what were the concrete directions of intervention for its protection.

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