ENDEMIC REPRESENTATIONS OF SECURITY CULTURE IN THE ROMANIAN PUBLIC SPHERE
ENDEMIC REPRESENTATIONS OF SECURITY CULTURE IN THE ROMANIAN PUBLIC SPHERE

Summary/Abstract: In Romania - and not only - security studies and its related disciplines are going through a significant crisis. They tend to be dominated by certain discrepancies between conceptual and theoretical advancements on one hand, and empirical research on the other one. The act of measuring security and security culture has usually generated academic debate much more than actual empirically-tested models. Notwithstanding, security culture must be analysed beyond its normative regulatory value. Theoretically, experts already know how the Romanians’ security culture should look like, but have little information on how it actually is. Unfortunately, both the scholars and the security professionals have little substantial sociological studies regarding security culture, security perception and other adjacent themes. Our presentation refers to a sociological description of security culture, starting with a general horizon and continuing with formulating a proposal regarding scientifically sustainable public typologies. The research was conducted in February 2018 by a consortium between LARICS - Romanian Academy, the University of Bucharest and INSCOP Research.

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