THEORETICAL HYPOTHESIS AND METHODOLOGICAL OPTIONS IN RESEARCH OF REMINANCES DUE TO COMMUNIST IDEOLOGY IN ROMANIA
THEORETICAL HYPOTHESIS AND METHODOLOGICAL OPTIONS IN RESEARCH OF REMINANCES DUE TO COMMUNIST IDEOLOGY IN ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: We are of the opinion that historiographical science has long reached the limit of its explicative capacity in terms of Romanian communism, and recent history becomes with every research carried out an increasing field of research for socio-human sciences. These, with the extensive methodological arsenal available to them, are entitled to claim this object of study in an attempt to highlight regularities that can not be investigated with the instruments of the historian. In this paper we will enumerate the main steps of this kind undertaken so far to study the reminiscences due to communist ideology in Romania. We will try to integrate and correlate these concerns, to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each theoretical and methodological model in part. From the sphere of social psychology, we will take on the theory of social representations and the dramaturgic model, which we will apply for the decryption of the way in which the everyday life took place during the totalitarian regime. We will analyze the concept of "social representation", highlighting the main research directions in this field, applying to Romanian communism. Conquests in the field of sociology of culture provide us with extensive information about the Romanian cultural profile as well as about the influence of the communist period in shaping the value of this profile.

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