ISTORIA DOCTRINELOR SOCIOLOGICE
THE HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES

Summary/Abstract: Promoter and organizer of the sociological department at the University of Cluj, both before and after 1989, Ion Aluaş (1927–1994) was, along this period of time, one of the most representative Romanian sociologists of the last decades of the 20th Century, being recognized as such both internally and internationally. His scientific career is a fortunate interfusion between the teaching activity, practiced with an outstanding calling, and the research activity centered on the Romanian social reality, deployed along „monographic and regional” investigations, belonging to the „sociology of development”, which he organized and directed. Unfortunately, his fruitful teaching and research activity were not accompanied by a similar publishing activity, I. Aluaş leaving for the posterity extremely few „written signs” of his passing through our sociological discipline. Therefore, the essay to restitute some fragments of his teaching activity, initiated by some of his former students, appears even more praiseworthy. Thus, we mention the course of Rural and Urban Sociology, transcribed after the notes of Claudiu Barabaş (see Ion Aluaş, Sociologia comunităţilor (Sociology of Communities), „Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai”, Sociologia (Sociology), Year XLII-XLIII, no. 1-2, 1997–1998, p. 7–31). The fragments from the course entitled The History of Contemporary Sociological Theories (text owed to Ionuţ Isac, another student of I. Aluaş,), presented in the following, reveal this Professor from the University of Cluj as being an excellent conversant with universal sociology and, therefore, as a potential author of a Romanian history of this discipline.

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