Policentrismul Şcolii sociologice de la Bucureşti: Calea metodologică la Henri H. Stahl
Polycentric Nature of Sociological School from Bucharest: The Methodological Way to Henri H. Stahl

Summary/Abstract: Contrary to its unique mentor name, Gusti School was, after a short unitary period, a polycentric one. Dimitrie Gusti built his school of thought and practice on systemic, methodological, institutional, topical and mentoring paths. Henri H. Stahl, his collaborator, acted even early in the 1930 as an emerging centre in the Gusti School. He codified for fieldwork the methodological project of the Gusti’s monographic approach and acted as a mentor for successive waves of young researchers in the interwar period an later on, up to his passing away in 1991. The current time community development social engineering was first of all codified by Henri Stahl (1935), after the first year of work in Royal student’s teams. He went far beyond Gusti’s frame of thought by the theory of devalmas (traditional, common ownership) village, social archaeology method, theory of community based on diffuse tradition, rules of modernising the village by itself (“ridicarea satului prin el însuşi”) etc. Other top leaders in the Gusti School, like Anton Golopenţia, Traian Herseni and Mircea Vulcanescu, provide by their activity support for the idea that the Sociological School from Bucharest was a polycentric one. The article supports the idea that Henri H. Stahl was one of the key, long term actors in a polycentric community of practice launched by Dimitrie Gusti in the between the two World Wars in Romania.

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