Tenured Researcher

Associated Researchers and Contributors

• Dumitru Otovescu(Ph.D, Professor, rural sociology)
• Dorel Abraham (Ph.D, Professor, opinion polls)
• Monica Popa (Ph.D, sociologist, rural sociology)
• Claudia Buruiană (sociologist, community development)
• Monica Vasile (Ph.D, sociologist and anthropologist, rural sociology and economic and environmental anthropology)

Research Topics

   Rural sociology, community development, socio-demographic studies, sociology of journalism, public policy analysis

Brief Description

   The Laboratory aimed to promote a network of working groups that examine relevant directions of studying human communities and their selective performances. The network's research projects can be searchable by thematic category or keyword for those who are interested in the Lab’s studies and to take part at the Lab’s activity. The most relevant working groups that carry out research in the Laboratory are: the group focused on the assessment of social impact of disaster’s scenarios; inter-institutional and multidisciplinary group focused on the Social Encyclopaedia of Romania; Genealogical Capital of European Countries: comparative studies on the “demographic winter” in Europe and on the spiritual genograms.

Programe de cercetare

• 2025 - Phenomena of maximum alarm: migration quotas, demographic winter, aligned threats. Contributions to the theory of contingent losses. Scalar Resilience Method (MERS), an innovation in the field of strategic management
• 2025 - The sociology of agency journalism – the foundation of a “citizen science” or “community” project (journalism in the service of the community)
• 2024-2025 - Social history of the rural world