The Social Process of Village-Swarming. The Background of Founding Şinca Nouă Village (Făgăraş County).
The Social Process of Village-Swarming. The Background of Founding Şinca Nouă Village (Făgăraş County).
Author(s): Gheorghe RoşculeţSubject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Universitatii Transilvania din Brasov
Keywords: Făgăraş County; Şinca Nouă village; Şinca Veche; sourcevillage; swarming; border-guardship; uniatism
Summary/Abstract: The process of founding the villages was a long and difficult one all over Romania. These social units bobbed up, knitted together, configured through the interweaving of geographical, demographic and historical determinants. Over time, the old villages (”source-villages") generated new rural settlements (”womb-villages”) by swarming, a process of anonymous moving of a part of the rural population. Şinca Nouă village of Făgăraş County is the result of a similar process of swarming. In most cases, the swarming process was caused by factors such as demographic growth, resources lessening or social oppression, but as far as Şinca Nouă village is concerned, the religious factor was prevailing in the swarming process.
Journal: Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov, Series VII: Social Sciences and Law
- Issue Year: 2013
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 179-184
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English