The Vicinities of Dragus. Past and Present

Abstract

Social life, in every form of manifestation, takes place within social units. In their sphere of inclusion, predominant of families and households, then kinsfolk (relatives), vicinities, and many more, each of these are invested with a major or minor role, in the daily life of Romanian villages. The vicinities are worth being brought out of the great destiny of the rural settlements. Present in ancient times only in the coexistence of German Transylvanian village settlements, the vicinities gradually also made their way to the orderliness of the Romanian villages. Such a vicinity association was mentioned in the research monograph of the Romanian Sociological School of Bucharest in the pre-war times of the past century, in Drăguș village (near Făgăraș). Drăguș has been appreciating this model of vicinity organization, by keeping some of the meanings and their initial attributes to obtain new ones.