ROMANIAN JOURNAL OF
SOCIOLOGY
Nos 1–2 • 2008
New Series
CONTENTS
THE EASTERN MARGINS
MANUELA BOATCĂ, The Eastern Margins of Empire. Coloniality in 19th Century Romania
RADU BALTASIU, Positioning in the Logic of the World System and the Construction of
Social Reality
GRIGORE CIPRIAN, Firms and Their Growth in the Globalization Era
CIPRIAN BĂDESCU, Organizational Strategies in a Global Era
COMMUNITIES IN A CHANGING CONTEXT
LUCIAN DUMITRESCU, The Romanian Villages’ Virtualities Through the Lenses of
Dimitrie Gusti’s Sociological System
VERONICA DUMITRAŞCU, Sociological Monographs and Rural Sociological Atlas
MARIN CONSTANTIN, Artisanship and Open-air Trade in Contemporary Romania
IOANA PETRE, The Emergence of a New Peri-Urban Pattern in Romania
SOCIAL PROBLEMS
SORIN M. RĂDULESCU, CRISTINA DÂMBOEANU, Victim-Offenderer Mediation
Programmes in Romania – A Useful Experience, Unexploited in the Legislation
MANUELA GHEORGHE, Contrasts and Unbalances within the European and Romanian
Religious Context
SOCIOLOGICAL PARADIGMS
ILIE BĂDESCU, Asynchronous Phenomena. Premises for a Noological Sociology
PUBLIC SPACE
CAMELIA BECIU, Electoral Communication and the European Agenda: New Campaign
Practices?