PERCEPTIONS ON SECURITY CULTURE
PERCEPTIONS ON SECURITY CULTURE

Summary/Abstract: Security culture encompasses the socially-transmitted traditions, mindsets, action modes which are specific to a certain community found in a certain geographical area. Security culture serves a vital function in its capacity of social cohesion mechanism as it provides the necessary framework for a social representation of security and it fosters the development of certain behavioral models, patterns and attitudes with respect to security. These, in turn, ensure the state of security that a society needs in order to be stable and well-defined. The present article presents the perceptions that the informed Romanian public has on security culture, its meaning, components, development, promotion, etc. The analysis is based on the results of a questionnaire administered in November-December 2017 to a group of 152 respondents and places the answers in the more global context of the trends in security culture.

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