9 ipoteze pentru o analiză sociologică-epistemologică a sociologiei românești în perioada comunistă 9 Hypotheses for Sociological-epistemological Analysis of Romanian Sociology during Communist Period Section Miscelanea

Abstract

The paper analyzes the Romanian sociology in the communist period (1944-1989), from a sociological and epistemological point of view. The Romanian sociology developed during the communist period, from the very beginning, as a distancing reaction towards the Marxist sociology and as an attempt to assimilate the paradigms of the non-Marxist sociology, the antebellum Romanian sociology and the Western sociology. The development of the Romanian sociology occurred under a triple challenge: being ideologically and politically accepted by the communist regime, as a useful and legitimate discourse, while avoiding being seized by the communist ideology and structuring its own scientific organization; last but not least, it had to position itself in relation to the Marxist-Leninist theoretical and ideological complex. The strategy of using the valuable elements of the antebellum Romanian sociology and the Western sociology was the main factor in adopting these paradigms. The Romanian sociology during the communist period situated itself at a micro-level and a sectorial level, and it was predominantly oriented towards the empirical research, unlike the Marxist-Leninist paradigm. Therefore the Romanian sociology aimed towards a semi-subterranean social reform, bottom-up, a reform focused on social sectors.