Panels

11th edition of the International Colloquium of Social Sciences and Communication (ACUM 2022) and the National RSS Conference
27 - 28 October 2022
 
 
 

Panels for researchers, teachers and professionals


Mihai S.Rusu

The fall of state socialism across the Central and Eastern European countries has brought about major political, economic, and socio-cultural transformations. This panel focuses on the reconfiguration of the memorial landscapes through the renaming of places (street names and urban nomenclatures etc.) and the removal of public monuments. It was through such toponymical practices and monumental actions, inter alia, that the new democratic authorities in charge of the postsocialist power have renegotiated the troubled relationship with the former regime and the socialist past. Renaming places and removing statues, busts, and commemorative plaques reshaped the symbolic geography of cities and redefined the memorial landscapes as well as that of collective identity and social belonging materialized into space. The papers selected in this panel examine the various aspects pertaining to place-naming and monuments, as well as the politics of memory underpinning such actions.

 

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Ana-Maria Bolborici

For the entire international community, the 21st century has begun with a more or less predictable effervescence, Islamist terrorism being one of the major causes. Thus, the crises generated by terrorist attacks are only one of the major global challenges. The crises at the beginning of the current century were complex, politico-military, with economic support in the conditions of emphasizing the gaps and multiplying the asymmetric threats, but nowadays a new major health crisis is ongoing. Since 2020, we have been dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, which is causing casualties and provoking insecurity in the world’s population. This insecurity is not only at the health level but also at the level of concern for respect for human rights. All these crises affect both developed and poor countries, besides the Covid-19 pandemic, which are challenging border wars, human trafficking, hunger, malnutrition, acute shortage of jobs, etc. The refugee crisis is also a crisis that has been dragging on for years and is at the root of many crises that derive from it. One sub-crisis that the European Union is facing, for example, is the identity crisis. States are trying to confront all these challenges, but most of the time, they are proving to be vulnerable. What scenarios we can imagine in the short, medium and even long term given the risks, threats and vulnerabilities of the world? What are the forecasts for the next period in terms of the security environment?

 

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Marian-Gabriel Hâncean and Bianca Elena Mihăilă

This session builds on the idea that social network analysis may prove critical and may make substantial contributions to understanding current societal challenges. COVID-19 pandemic has altered our style of living, significantly rearranging our community and personal links. The recent changes and restructuring of our social ties are expected to act as drivers of emerging new social network contexts embedding social actors. This session invites contributions from researchers who are currently employing social network theories, methods, or tools (qualitative, quantitative, or mixed) in their research work. Specifically, we welcome presentations focused either on research designs intended to facilitate the analysis of structural (relational) data or on theoretical frameworks meant to provide valuable insights into the human life embedded in the multi-layered webs of social connections. This session is interested in receiving presentation proposals within the following areas (but not limited to it): migration, the science of science, political networks, public policy and corruption, organizational behaviour, intra- and inter-organizational networks, social support, health studies, diffusion processes, large data visualization. We encourage the entire spectrum of submissions from online to offline data and processes, from ego-centric and socio-centric to personal network analysis approaches, from ethnographic stances to complex system analyses.

 

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Valentina Marinescu, Bianca Fox and Daniela Rovența-Frumușani

Over the last decade, most European countries have had certain expectations about the scale of digital transition and its implications. Indeed, between 2018-2020 each member country of the European Union announced an established national digital agenda and/or a digital strategy. The overarching objectives of these strategies and other public policies were to stimulate economic progress, provide better health care, connected and autonomous mobility, efficient use of energy and resources, generate wealth and (international) competitiveness and accelerate the digitization of public services, with a social focus on strengthening democracy. However, in just two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has radically changed the digital landscape, the role of digitalisation and the way in which digitalisation is perceived in European societies and economies and accelerated the pace of transition to digital services. Now, digital technologies are seen as essential for professional work, education, entertainment, socializing, shopping and accessing a range of public services, from medical services to culture. The pandemic has also brought to light the crucial role that disruptive innovation can have on individuals and on society as a whole and has highlighted the vulnerabilities of our digital spaces and the impact of misinformation on our democratic societies.
Given these challenges, the renewed European aspiration is to pursue digital policies that enable citizens and businesses to enjoy a sustainable and more prosperous digital future, where people are at the forefront of digital transformation. The European Union's digital master plan also includes the Compass for the Digital Dimension 2030: The European Model for the Digital Decade which sets out four central objectives for the next ten years, as follows: 1) A population with digital skills and highly qualified digital professionals; 2) Sustainable, secure and high-performance digital infrastructures; 3) Digital transformation of enterprises and 4) Digitization of public services. At the same time, over the next ten years, the European Union is interested in the potential digital transformation of five key ecosystems: Manufacturing, Health, Construction, Agriculture, Mobility.
Given these fundamental changes, this panel invites presentations concerned with analyzing the impact and future of the digital transition at a social, economic, political, or cultural level. We, therefore, welcome national, international and transnational studies and we invite proposals on the following or other connected topics:
•What are the implications of the digital transition in education, media, culture, etc.?
•The state of digital infrastructure at the national/international level and its implications on the speed of transition to digital services.
•What changes will the digital transition bring in terms of the emergence of new occupations and professions?
•The impact of digital transition on small businesses and the economy.
•How will the digital transition influence social relations and social organization?
•What will national and international political life look like during the digital transition?
•What impact will the digital transition have on the economy and economic life?

 

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Horia Moașa and Carmen Buzea

During the last few years, the world has been vastly challenged by pressing global issues (e.g., climate and demographic change) and most recently by the COVID-19 pandemic, transforming societal and technological landscapes. Besides national governments, organizations have played a key role in instituting a “new normal” by experimenting with novel business models, fostering collaborations that span geographic, political, disciplinary, and organizational borders, also by adapting to new forms of work for their employees and by encouraging the use of new technologies. The vital role of organizations in tackling the new challenges has been recognized by academics who have either reconsidered some research directions or added new ones in trying to answer the pressing question of how do organizations and work look like in the “new normal”? We invite you to contribute to discussions, debates, and collaborations on working behaviour that transcend disciplines, perspectives, and methodologies in a time of political turmoil and significant global challenges.

 

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Marinela-Cristina Șimon and Mihaela Gotea

Volunteering (individual or corporative) is recognized worldwide as a very valuable resource for any community, designed to improve personal well-being but at the same time contribute to building social capital and social solidarity. In the context of the isolation and physical suffering caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the whole world and all aspects of life have changed, so volunteering has changed and gained new value. In times of crisis, such as the one we've been through for the last two years and still going through, volunteering is gaining strength and value, especially since the costs to the volunteer are obviously greater than the benefits.
This panel aims to bring together teachers and specialists interested in the topic of volunteering and corporate social responsibility, in order to create a stimulating context for discussions and debates on theoretical, methodological and practical issues.

 

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Gabriela Dima and Diana-Cristina Bodi

The world has changed, and no one prepared us for this. The COVID-19 pandemic has become a major public healthcare concern worldwide, which has impacted the economy, environmental sustainability and social responsibility, as well as every aspect of human life. Transformations generated by the pandemic have changed the context and the process of intervention in the field of social work.
The panel addresses the role of the profession of social work as an essential front-line discipline facing the pandemic, although largely hidden behind the medical professions. Social workers around the world have been actively engaged in crises intervention and the provision of social support to individuals, families, and communities. They have both struggled and worked creatively to meet needs in risky and uncertain situations. The panel aims to discuss and understand the changes posed by the COVID-19 pandemic to the field of social work and its impact on social workers and to contribute to the advancement of scientific knowledge about the social work profession in the "new normal". The panel seeks to attract empirical papers and reflective accounts about social workers and social work practices and activities with a variety of vulnerable groups – social work with children, families and older people, disabled people, social work and community engagement, ethical considerations and social justice, social work management and decision-making, social policy, and social work education.

 

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Erika Tőkés Gyöngyvér

In the post-coronavirus epidemic era, examining the organisational integration of digital technology is a timely issue (Hai et al. 2021). The study of digital transformation in organisations is most often dominated by a managerial perspective, according to which organisational reality is objectively given and can therefore be planned and changed through managerial action (Mumby 2012). A more recent view in organisational research is that organisational reality can be seen as a social construct, created through the collaboration and communication of stakeholders. In this interpretation, digital transformation has its own narratives and discourses that imagine an organizational reality in a particular way (Mumby 2012, Hardy et al. 2004, Jorgensen 2002). According to a critical approach to organizational communication, the organizational reality is framed and interpreted by leaders and then accepted by organizational members. Discourses about the digital transformation of organisations are not neutral but play an active role in creating and changing reality (Jorgensen 2002).
In this panel, we invite researchers to contribute to the exploration and systematisation of narratives and discourses about the digital transformation of organisations. We invite proposals that promote an expanded understanding of the digital transformation of organisations, including critical perspectives, in order to extend scientific knowledge by challenging taken-for-granted interpretations and to provide a more nuanced understanding of the phenomenon.

 

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Ana Maria Bogdan, Jason Disano, Vasile Alecsandru Strat and Mihaela Covrig

Society’s recent transition from the analogue to the digital age provides researchers access to an unprecedented amount of social data, generated rapidly through our constant interactions with digital devices or platforms. Unlike conventional social data, these new digital sources often provide rich detail; however, they rarely come in ready-to-use formats that social researchers are accustomed to. While computational science provides us with powerful tools to harness these data, the social sciences can contribute theories, methods, and frameworks to guide our inquiry, thereby allowing us to further understand ourselves and the world around us. This panel welcomes submissions that involve research in the area of computational social sciences, with a specific focus on research methods that combine social and computational approaches, including one or more of the following characteristics:
- Novel research designs that combine social sciences and computational sciences techniques for data collection, processing, or analysis.
- Studies that propose, discuss, analyze, or make use of novel ways of recruiting study participants, or use new ways of collecting social data, conducting interviews, surveys, focus groups, or running experiments to answer social questions.
- Studies focused on developing new analysis techniques or applying computational science techniques to analyse social data or answer social research questions.
- Studies discussing or advancing knowledge related to ethical considerations and concerns related to using digital data to answer social research questions. Conceptual papers that discuss future directions of conducting social research in the digital era.

 

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Bogdan Nadolu

With a relatively recent history, the term "internal periphery" is still controversial because if we are talking about a periphery, it is necessarily in opposition to the centre and, moreover, is external to the hearth or to the internal point of any city or village. Taken in this sense, the expression of the inner periphery is obviously nonsense. However, if we try to make a contextualisation, the expression acquires an extraordinarily complex content, perfectly applicable in several areas of social life. Being in an inner periphery practically means being in the shadow of a growth pole, that is, being too close to a landmark that is far too strong and too consistent to can be overcome. This panel aims to presentations of theoretical and applied works, in the form of presentations or posters, in the field of urban sociology, addressing, without limitation, topics such as suburbanization, livability, urban resilience, connectivity, gentrification, shrinkage, urban planning and others

 

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Geta Mitrea, Albert Ugochukwu, Marcela Șlusarciuc and Luminița Iosif

This panel addresses academia, researchers, PhD students, Bachelor's students, Master of Arts students, professionals and stakeholders who share the principles of FAIR movement on Open Science from social sciences and related domains in their research. Discussions will be organized on the topics of FAIR movement on Opens Science, advantages and disadvantages; and also ethical issues that emerge from this.

 

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Mălina Voicu, Kseniya Kizilova and Marian Zulean

Black Sea has always been an area of vivid economic and cultural exchange, located at the intersection of different political systems and local cultures. All these encounters may lead to the development of a unique cultural space, fostering its own political identities and social values. This panel aims at studying the culture and identity in the Black Sea area, inquiring about the existence of a common political identity relying on similar cultural background and a socio-cultural frontier surrounding the countries in the region. We encourage submissions approaching the topic from a holistic perspective, looking at the cultural space, not limited to the geographical one, inquiring to what extent the historical path contributed to the creation of a common cultural space and what is the contribution of economics, politics, and international relations to its development. Can we talk about a single cultural frontier relying on the common heritage or about several frontiers delineating distinctive sub-regional cultural patterns? Submissions using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods and employing an interdisciplinary perspective are equally welcome.

 

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Mălina Voicu, Simona Maria Stănescu and Delia Bădoi

The COVID 19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have challenged the existential security of the European societies. Since World War II survival was taken for granted in most European societies, leading to the emergence of a new behavioural and attitudinal pattern. However, survival has been under threat in the past two years, due to “plague and war”, two occurrences nobody expected to encounter. To what extent have the past two years led to changes in individual attitudes and behaviours? Are we more concerned about survival and the preservation of traditional order? If so, can we talk about the revival of traditional orientations in life domains such as family, politics, work, or interpersonal relations? And to what extent did they lead to the occurrence of traditional patterns of behaviour, combining pro-family values with support for populist orientations?
We welcome submissions approaching the topic from various perspectives and employing qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods to shed light on how “plague and war” have impacted our attitudes and behaviours. We also encourage submissions using a vast array of techniques of data collection and analysis and linking data from various sources, like social media, survey research, and policy analysis. Other complementary perspectives are also welcome.

 

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Silviu G. Totelecan

There was a time, not as long ago as in the time of storytelling, rather a few decades ago, at the end of the last millennium, when public communication, done by public institutions, via public channels was reaching unaltered the ears of the general public. In the present analytical context, the importance of that period lies in the fact that the messages sent in the air – then as now, nothing more than a well-balanced mix of final truths and notorious lies – were embedded with a certain if not long-lasting trust in the communication dispositive (i.e., the joint venture of authorities, mass-media and the targeted public) that have produced them, at least until it turned out to contradict specialized meanings and the common sense, both reinforced by the phantom of the public sphere. The technological developments, the emergence and spread of the Internet, the proliferation of the means of communication that live in the absence of the interlocutors (i.e., virtual communication) on the pretext that they evacuate the distances (first physical and then social) between people, in short, the unprecedented overlap and intersection of the social with the technological life, they shattered the fragile trust in the assemblage of the public communication, privatizing it. Numerous official voices have appeared in each institution, able to present it to third parties through various unofficial channels, and consequently, the message sent by each of them into cyberspace is one of the many possible variants that give an account of its state of affairs. At the same time and using the techno-social infrastructure of the moment, what we used to consider as being communication in the private realm, our everyday stories that we share over a coffee or at a more festive gathering, have got a new figure, being publicized in the info sphere, with the mention that coffee’s aroma is enjoyed in solitude, in the chartroom, and the meetings are consumed on screen.
With the collapse of the barriers between the public and the private message, both coexisting more and more indistinguishable everywhere, with the fall into obsolescence of the privileged sources of truth, with the increasing misunderstanding between what is worth relying on and what is to be acknowledged as background noises, it is hard to ignore the deceptive or misleading spectrum of the communication dispositive, why not its illusory character. The already years of pandemic isolation, and hopefully not the months of the war in the neighbouring country, add other layers (e.g., anxiety and fear being by far the most obvious) that challenges the comprehensive understanding of the communicative drifts we are in.
Through this panel, we invite you to work together on the possibility that each of us engages in the proper decryption of something that is supposed to take place beyond the self-imposed maze of our own echo chambers. Is it possible to look beyond our communicative bubble? If yes, when we recognize its setting can we do something more than let us be swallowed by a larger one that encapsulates us? On the other hand, if our lives, as social scientists, are not spent in the castles in the air, could we provide proper explanations of what is going on on every single island of the hypercommunication archipelago? Are those hints acknowledged? by whom?

 

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Cosima Rughiniș and Michael G. Flaherty

Are vaccines the most effective life-saving invention in the history of medicine, or are toxic intrusions that damage immune systems in the commercial interest of Big Pharma? Are sanitary masks simple yet powerful tools to contain the spread of respiratory viruses, or are they noxious instruments of state manipulation and mass submissiveness? Are tobacco-heating products a solution for the health risks of smoking, or are they yet another ploy of Big Tobacco to capitalize on nicotine addiction? Are carbon capture technologies a viable solution to the climate crisis, or are they ideological tools to legitimize a continuing reliance on fossil fuels and Big Oil? Is social media a connective tissue for the digital society, or is it the very source of polarization, hate speech and fake news that plague our times? As citizens of risk societies (Beck, 1992), we often find ourselves at crossroads between diverging worldviews, constructed on alternative forms of knowledge about risk. We witness and contribute to processes of social bifurcation of reality (Rughiniș and Flaherty, 2022), in which science-trusting and distrusting worldviews are constructed and consolidated in opposition to one another. Such worlds remain articulated through hinge objects, such as vaccines, masks, firearms, or carbon-capture technologies, which combine shared material elements with widely divergent interpretations, across polarized worldviews. Big Industry, scientific organizations, media organizations, tech platforms, and communities of citizens are only some of the social actors involved in the collective production of knowledge about risks and their mitigation.
We invite contributions that discuss the social construction of diverging forms of knowledge in present-day societies (Berger and Luckmann, 1966), particularly in relation to controversies involving science. Some illustrative questions, yet not exclusive, are:
- What are the divergent pasts, presents, and futures constructed in polarized worldviews regarding the climate crisis, pandemics, vaccination, tobacco products, artificial intelligence, and other controversial topics involving arguments from science and technology?
- What are the alternative numbers and arguments invoking science that uphold divergent constructions of reality? How is social polarization related to processes of quantification and to an increasing appeal to science for legitimacy?
- How do individuals explore polarized worldviews and how do they reach one or another version of reality? What is the role of social interaction and trust in such journeys?
- Which hinge objects become increasingly controversial in present days, and what are the alternative constructions of reality that are articulated through them?
- Who are the social actors that contribute to the social construction of polarized realities on a specific topic, and how do their alliances make a difference?

 

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Stefania Matei and Cosima Rughiniș

Both lay and scientific theories have attempted to explain social, economic, political and cultural phenomena by starting with the belief that people share a set of inherent or intrinsic properties that group them into distinctive “social categories”. In this sense, “social categories” are understood as discrete and natural structures that possess an underlying essence shared by members in a category. From an essentialist point of view, “social categories” are understood as realities that comprise an idiosyncratic nature that is historically invariant and culturally universal. However, essentialism has long been a matter of debate and contestation in social sciences and cultural studies. The critique of essentialist positions came especially from feminist scholars who challenged and questioned the status system that traditionally governed the relationship between women and men. Social constructivism, posthumanism, critical theory, new materialism and other philosophies have added up to this discussion by showing that “social categories” are powerful constructions that create ontological distinctions in a continuous process of boundary making. Therefore, essentialism as an implied postulate of social organisation has been subsequently replaced by entitativity as a matter of signification. The discussion was redirected towards processes through which independent individuals with particular experiences and subjective worldviews are aggregated into a meaningful and unified category whose distinctiveness is recognizable to others. Based on this perspective, “social categories” are understood as by-products of cultural concepts, thus encapsulating historically situated conventions that reproduce what is taken for granted in a social context. Moreover, “social categories” have been discussed as basic conditions for creating and organizing knowledge about the world. In this regard, “social categories” are considered representational phenomena that emerged from a social necessity to construct the world as an intelligible and coherent assemblage of relations and practices. “Social categories” are thought of as realities that appeared in people’s attempt to make sense of their proximate environment by integrating some explanatory assumptions in the interpretation of the world. However, the focus on entitativity has given rise to an essentialisation of anti-essentialist assumptions by actually essentializing the main construct of “social categories”.
In this context, we invite authors to re-examine how they engage with “social categories” as conspicuous constructs in their research. Discussions could be focused especially, but not exclusively on the apparatuses that maintain categories based on gender, age, race, religion, occupation, sexual orientation, disability, etc. as relevant classifications in the constitution of reality. The papers could consider the following lines of inquiry: How are beliefs about “social categories” displayed, institutionalized, objectified and materialized? How “social categories” are discursively employed to support and enable particular interventions in the social world? How are “social categories” stabilized and destabilized through discursive practices and material instantiations? How are “social categories” essentialized within the dominant culture to perpetuate a legitimate system of power relations? How are ontological distinctions between “social categories” being reworked through resistance and political action?

 

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Marian Preda and Stefania Matei

Barbara Adam introduces a “timescape perspective” as an analytical framework that might be used to capture the complex and multiple temporalities involved in commonly occurring sociocultural processes (Adam 2005). She has developed a method to take time into account as an immanent phenomenon to be found not only in business practices, market structures, technological architectures, and political endeavours, but also in other actions that make up reality. A timescape perspective is a tool that cultivates a sociological sensitivity to the temporal dimension of the world. Such an enriched perspective might be accomplished by asking relevant time-related questions that could open up new directions of study and create alternative areas of inquiry. Based on these assumptions, Adam has shown that modernity created a hegemony of the clock time in an attempt to make nature subject to human control. Modernity has produced a commodification of time through the interaction of various institutions that participated both in the formation of the nation-state and in the establishment of a capitalist mode of production. These institutions have jointly operated to stabilize a conception of time as a universal, uniform, decontextualized and measurable asset that might be used, allocated, converted and exchanged on a market-like basis. Therefore, modernity generated a quantified conception of time and gave rise to distinctive habits of mind by assuming a version of time as a resource that might be translatable into money. This conception is embedded in the Newtonian imaginary, which influenced every sphere of social life and therefore has progressively become implicated in the production of important environmental hazards.
With the transition from modernity to postmodernity, we assist in a reconstruction of the basic cognitive structures that previously served as markers of truth and social validation. Specifically, the pursuit of objectivity has been replaced with epistemological relativism, representationalism with eclecticism, exclusionary categories with fluid identities, the desiderata of predictability with the recognition of uncertainty and indeterminacy, economic systems with symbolic systems, and so on. In this new configuration of meaning and living, new versions of time are emerging and new habits of mind are taking shape. Therefore, we invite authors to reconsider the sociocultural and political phenomena of postmodernity through a timescapes lens. The papers could consider especially, but not exclusively the following lines of inquiry: How does postmodernity change the consciousness of time? What are the metaphors used to make sense of time in postmodernity? How is time present in the new ideological shifts that characterize the postmodern political realm? How are the temporal dimensions of past, present and future appropriated in a postmodern culture? What kind of concepts are generated and legitimated in the enactment of a postmodern socio-temporal order? What are the timescapes of postmodernity? How are they different from those of modernity? What kind of challenges and risks do they pose to society, and how they might be mitigated?

 

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Aurelian Muntean and Andreea Dobrita

The recent years have brought major disruptions to the political, economic, and social arenas, both at national and international levels. The healthcare crisis produced by the COVID-19 pandemic, or the security and military crisis (Russia’s invasion of Ukraine) have increased the unpredictability and uncertainty worldwide. The 20th century created and consolidated social and political institutions, which created relative stability, became fragile. The young generation born in the 1990s and onwards have experienced 9/11 and the ‘war against terrorism, the financial crisis of 2008, the effects of environmental degradation and climate change, and most recently the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s war on Ukraine. These global challenges encourage us to provide more in-depth analyses on the well-functioning of our democratic system and to renew the focus on issues such as the voter’s decision-making process, candidates’ evaluations, the role of the digital instruments in voters’ choice, the formation of political opinion, or turnout. The impact of recent global changes on these political and social issues deserves more empirical and theoretical attention. This panel welcomes papers related to political behavior that try to unfold the effects of the recent crises on electoral choice, turnout, and public opinion. Comparative and case studies, mixed methods, or single qualitative or quantitative studies are acceptable for this panel. Proposals examining the voter decision-making process, as well as the process of candidates’ evaluation, are especially welcomed, along with proposals that highlight the use of new data, observational or other, that are well-suited to study political behavior issues.

 

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Diana-Cristina Bodi and Nicoleta Meret

The relationship between the theory of social work and its practice is a delicate subject, tacitly approached by specialists from the field. There are often discussions and even controversies between social work theorists and practitioners. Those who work directly with beneficiaries of social work minimize the role of the theory in their intervention, focusing only on the application of social policies from the field. At the same time, researchers have difficulty identifying the real problems, from the "grass-root", in the field of social work. The workshop aims to bring together the theorists and practitioners of social work and to carry out a constructive debate on what needs to be done so that social work develops with the contributions of both parts

 

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Bogdan Voicu

Fast changes in Romanian higher education and research shaped the post-communist landscape of practicing academic sociology. The same applies to all other social sciences, which were also forbidden to exist at university level during the communist dictatorship.
This section invites presentations related to the state of social sciences in contemporary world, with a focus on Romania, but also aiming to include insights from any other country, as well as cross-country comparisons.
In a reflexive effort, SSR initiated in 2021 a websurvey among Romanian sociologists, anthropologists, social workers, and political scientists that are active in the academia. We encourage presenters to include the resulting database in their analyses. Data is available starting mid-April 2022 on the SSR website. Nevertheless, the section welcomes presentations based on any other data and/or methodological approach, with the explicit objective to provide a forum where the current state of social sciences can be subject to debate.

 

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