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SOCIAL PRACTICES AND IDENTITY REPRESENTATIONS WITHIN A COMMUNITY – THE RESEARCHING METHODOLOGY
SOCIAL PRACTICES AND IDENTITY REPRESENTATIONS WITHIN A COMMUNITY – THE RESEARCHING METHODOLOGY

Author(s): Gabriela Boangiu
Subject(s): Culture and social structure
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Identity; narrativity; symbolic representations; qualitative methods;

Summary/Abstract: The study wishes to approach the importance of some socialpractices in maintaining the identity in a community. It will be referring to thestructure of the property and to its representations in the mentality of acommunity. A special attention will be shown to the social practices concerningthe foundation (stories describing the creation of the communities, for example)and referring to the periodical actualization of some identity guide marks (localcustoms, events organized at the level of the entire community).

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: XII
  • Page Range: 67-72
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English
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