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DAILY LIFE IN COMMUNISM. AN APPROACH THROUGH PERSONAL OBJECT ANALYSIS

Angela REPANOVICI, Vlad BATRANU-PIN?EA, Elisa DAN, Liviu TOADER, Adrian Paul TULIGA

First published: 2023https://doi.org/10.35603/sws.iscss.2023/s10.44View metrics

Abstract

The present paper wants to analyze the perception of communism. It is structured in two main parts: the theoretical preliminaries and the case study. In the first part, we will build a theoretical base about the main concepts that influenced the cultural world and daily life during the years of communist dictatorship in Romania. In the second part, we analyzed a database composed of photographs of objects chosen by the respondents as significant for the period we are talking about. We want to see what are the reasons that made the research participants opt for the respective objects and what significance they had for the history of Romanian anthropology and sociology. The research hypotheses on which this paper was built are two in number. The first of them starts with the fact that the objects had a major importance in the formation of a collective memory and identity in a turbulent period from a political, economic, and social point of view. The second one looks at the object as a method of flaunting one's status or escaping from everyday life.

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Title
DAILY LIFE IN COMMUNISM. AN APPROACH THROUGH PERSONAL OBJECT ANALYSIS
Authors
Angela REPANOVICI, Vlad BATRANU-PIN?EA, Elisa DAN, Liviu TOADER, Adrian Paul TULIGA
Proceedings
Proceedings of 10th SWS International Scientific Conference on Social Sciences - ISCSS 2023
Publisher
SGEM WORLD SCIENCE (SWS) Scholarly Society
Year
2023
Pages
603-610
SWS Citekey
REPANOVICI202310111
ISSN
2682-9959
ISBN
978-3-903438-06-4
Language
en
Publication type
Proceedings Paper
Keywords
communismobject analysismemoriesculturepolitics
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