Department:

Urban and Landscape Design

Course Leaders:

prof.dr.urb. Andreea Necșulescu

asist.dr.urb.soc. Andreea Pene (Acasandre)

Learning outcomes:

The course aims to make students understand the complex social and demographic phenomena, which influence the development of communities. Thus, the course offers to the students, competences in the analysis, description and interpretation of social and demographic phenomena which influence urban life and social behavior.

Content:

The course is based on the knowledge acquired in the previous years of study, aiming to consolidate the competences regarding the social and demographic study of communities. Hence, the master students will learn to analyse and interpret data regarding different urban/rural communities, by using specific techniques and methods. At the same time, there will be inserted information regarding the social imagination and description, extremely necessary in the formation of a general image of a community and the creation of a clear picture that explains phenomena in all their complexity.

Teaching Method:

The course will take place in a mixed form, the theoretical information which will be presented being at the same time applied within the territorial analysis (the practical component of the course). The theory regarding the research methodology and social explanation will be presented in the form of a discourse, immediately finding its applicability within the case studies. This approach has the advantage of pragmatism, thus allowing careful monitoring of the way in which information is set and utilized through the analysis of a given community.

Assessment:

Written examination

Bibliography:

• Pene (Acasandre), A., Dinu-Panaitescu, A. (2026). INDUCED PARTICIPATION AS THE BASIS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SOCIALLY INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY. THE CASE STUDY OF TĂRLUNGENI VILLAGE, BRAȘOV COUNTY, ROMANIA, nstitutul de Sociologie al Academiei Romane
• Acasandre, A. (2021). Vulnerabilități contemporane pentru comunitățile de aromâni și meglenoromâni din mediul rural al Județului Tulcea, Editura Etnologicǎ
• Cinelli, M., De Francisci Morales, G., Galeazzi, A., Quattrociocchi, W., & Starnini, M. (2021). The echo chamber effect on social media. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences, 118(9)
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• Chelcea, S. (2001) Metodologia cercetării sociologice: metode cantitative și calitative, Editura Economică, București
• Rughiniș, C (2007) Explicația sociologică. Metodă și imaginație, Polirom, Iași