Urbanitate şi moralitate la sfârşitul epocii moderne. Influenţa moravurilor citadine asupra zonelor rurale limitrofe
Urbanity and Morality at the End of the Modern Age. The Influence of Urban Morals upon Neighboring Rural Areas

Summary/Abstract: As of mid XIXth century and in the early XXth century, Transylvania witnessed an increasingly robust modernization process. Although it started much later, in comparison with Western European countries, as a temporal sequence, the process implied rapid changes which brought confusion into the Romanian society, at first. Nevertheless, among the most urgent and obviously needed modernization undertakings, one can notice the remarkable urban development, due to the migration of labour force from neighboring rural areas towards urban spaces. As a result of these developments, a new category of city inhabitants emerged: young people of rural extraction, working in the city as attendants and usually employed to perform domestic tasks. This particular category of people will set themselves up as advocates and supporters of urban corrupted morals. Freed from parental – or community – custody and control, these young people become easy pray for urban temptations in a city where their trace can be easily lost. The current research paper is based on contemporary information sources and aims at analyzing the specific manner in which urban environment left its own mark upon these destinies trapped in the sphere of cohabitation relationships, of illegitimacy and abandonment.

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