The Bucharest School of Sociology and the Failure of the Interwar Community Development Project

Authors

  • Bogdan Bucur National School of Political and Administrative Studies, Bucharest, Romania

Keywords:

Sociological School of Bucharest, “Prince Carol” Royal Cultural Foundation, Dimitrie Gusti, Royal Student Teams, Social Service Teams

Abstract

In interwar Romania, the Bucharest School of Sociology, founded by academician Dimitrie Gusti, theorized and implemented the first integrated program of community development, financed from the state budget, through the “Prince Carol” Royal Cultural Foundation, under the patronage of King Carol II. In this article [1] we will review the main causes leading to the failure of this project, aimed at culturally and materially lifting the Romanian village from its state of underdevelopment: on the one hand, peasants’ illiteracy, poverty, passivity and distrust of modernity and on the other, intellectual arrogance, lack of resources, Dimitrie Gusti’s utopian vision, combined with the inefficiency of the education system and failure of agriculture.

Author Biography

Bogdan Bucur, National School of Political and Administrative Studies, Bucharest, Romania

Department of Sociology, Faculty of Political Sciences

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Published

2014-01-21

Issue

Vol. 6(55) No. 2 (2013)

Section

SOCIOLOGY

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Copyright (c) 2013 Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VII: Social Sciences • Law

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