Constantin Schifirneţ

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Constantin Schifirneţ (born August 29, 1945, Bahna, Neamţ County, son of Maria Schifirneţ, born Movileanu, and of Neculai Schifirneţ) is a Romanian sociologist and historian of philosophy

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[edit] Profesional Life

In 1968 he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Iasi with a master's degree in Phylosophy. Between 1968 and 1990he worked as a researcher at the Research Centre on Youth. He was Visiting Scholar in USA, Boston University and Berkeley University[1] (February-May 1981). He has presented papers at international scientific congresses and conferences organized in Romania, France, England, China, Denmark, Israel, Germany, Italy, Russia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Cuba, Belgium. He is member of European Sociological Association. Dean and Founding of Political Sciences at Dimitrie Cantemir University in Bucharest. Between 1990 and 1994 he was General Director in Ministry of Culture. In 1980, he earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Bucharest.

Schifirneţ is Professor of Sociology at the National School of Political Sciences and Administratives of Bucharest. He was awarded the Romanian Academy Prize for work' C. Rãdulescu-Motru.His Life and Activities in 2007.


His scientific interests are sociology and anthropology, Romanian philosophy and sociology, modernisation, sociology of age and generations, communication.

He has coordinated „Ethnos”' collection of Albatros Printing House. He has republished 30 titles'Romanian works - a lot of them for the first time since first edition [2].

He has contribution in modernisation and development sociology, in age and generations sociology, in the study of Romanian thinkers, and especially Constantin Rădulescu-Motru. For instance, it has examined the outlook of Rădulescu-Motru about philosophy of Kant [3].

Schifirneţ has studied historical particularities the modern evolution of Romanians[4]. The modernisation has begun with political institutional construction and not with the building of capitalist economy. The Romanian modernization was against boyars and social traditional structures. But a lot of traditional elements had outlived the new capitalist political-juridical organism from Romanian society. Romania is still a country which faced a late modernization; in the same time it has got many elements of modernity which fail to coagulate stable modern structures in all departments of society. Schifirneţ thinks that it is useful to analyze the Romanian modernization processes under the notion of tendentious modernity[5]. This means the development in the opposite direction: from the affirmation of national spirit and political construction towards economical development. In Romanian society modernity is a trend, which coexists with obsolete institutional forms and ancient substance. Tendentious modernity penetrates slowly and hard through the complicated network of socio-institutional structures of the traditional and patriarchal Romanian society. Since it has no clear dominant form, it is a mosaic modernity. Modernity is the framework and the element which supports the Romanian nation, but not by means of economical way, as a basis of a national state. Modernityis a tendency, an ideal in the construction of a nation.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ cshe.berkeley.edu/events/csheat50/cshe-affiliates.pdf
  2. ^ cf.Dictionarul General al Literaturii Române, S/T, Editura Univers enciclopedic, 2007, p. 128
  3. ^ www.kant.uni-mainz.de/bibliographie/bid_3305.html
  4. ^ The Forms without Substance, a Romanian Brand, 2007
  5. ^ Ibidem

[edit] Books

  • 1973 - Studentul şi societatea (The Student and Society)(coord. and author)
  • 1974 - Adolescenţii şi cultura (coauthor) (The Adolescences and Culture)
  • 1985 - Generaţie şi cultură (Generation and Culture)
  • 1987 - Tineretul între permanenţă şi înnoire (The Youth between permanence and Innovation)
  • 1991 - Lectura şi biblioteca publică (The Reading and Public Library)
  • 1993 - La lecture d'est en ouest (in colab.), Paris
  • 1996 - Civilizaţie modernă şi naţiune. Mihail Kogălniceanu, Titu Maiorescu, Mihai Eminescu (The Modern Civilization and Nation)
  • 1997 - Educaţia adulţilor în schimbare (Adult Education in Change)
  • 1999 – Sociologie (Sociology) (2th edition - 2002, 3th edition - 2004)
  • 2001 - Geneza modernă a ideii naţionale. Psihologie etnică şi identitate naţională (The Modern Genesis of National Idea. Ethnic Psychology and National Identity)
  • 2003-2005 - C. Rădulescu-Motru. Viaţa şi faptele sale, vol. I-III (C. Rădulescu-Motru.His Life and Activities, vol. I-III)
  • 2007 - Formele fără fond, un brand românesc (The Forms without Substance, a Romanian Brand)

[edit] Bibliography

  • Dictionarul General al Literaturii Române, S/T (General Dictionary of Romanian Literature, S/T) Editura Univers enciclopedic, 2007, p. 128.
  • Ştefan Costea (coordonator), Sociologi români (Romanian Sociologists), Editura Expert, 2001, pp.395-396
  • Enciclopedia marilor personalităţi, (Enciclopedy of Personalities) volumul V, Editura Geneze, 2003, pp. 355-359.
  • Septimiu Chelcea, Interviu cu Constantin Schifirneţ la 60 de ani, (Interview with Constantin Schifirneţ) ,,Sociologie românească”, volumul III, nr. 3, toamna 2005, pp. 245-258.
  • Brânduşa Negulescu, De la răzeş la universitar (From Peasent to Professor), Paideea, nr. 4, 2005, pp. 38-49.

[edit] External links

  • Comunicare.ro: Constantin Schifirneţ
  • cshe.berkeley.edu/events/csheat50/cshe-affiliates.pdf
  • www.esa8thconference.com/ fileuploads/ESAProgrammeBook.pdf
  • asj.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/17/1/78.pdf
  • www.kant.uni-mainz.de/bibliographie/bid_3305.html
  • www.revista.comunicare.ro/arhiva/9%20abstract.pdf