The Concept of Civil Society in the Romanian Press after 1990
The Concept of Civil Society in the Romanian Press after 1990

Summary/Abstract: In Romanian public opinion, ideas and conceptions of civil society cannot be separated from all the civil society-related notions and activities witnessed in Central and Eastern Europe during the past two decades. This study is not concerned with the present situation of civil society in Romania, but how the notion of civil society appeared in the Romanian press after the events of December 1989. Our question is not about the possibilities for the civil society in Romania to unfold, but about the problems and themes arising in a certain section of the Romanian press by the concept of civil society and its getting into discourse. This well-distinguishable section of the Romanian press includes periodicals in Romanian and in Hungarian mainly publishing articles of sociology and political science. Evidently, the monitoring of this discourse will also touch upon the civil society of Romania as it was in the 1990s, but the scope of our attention will not cover the empirical aspects of its unfolding. We are interested only in cases when the possibilities of this appear as part of a reality-creating act of the discourse.

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