Conferința omagială „Dimitrie Gusti, fondatorul sociologiei și promotorul culturii românești”, Sala de Consiliu a Bibliotecii Centrale Universitare „Carol I”, 26 septembrie 2025

Abstract

The year 2025 marks the 145th anniversary of the birth and 70 years since the passing of Dimitrie Gusti, the founder of the Romanian sociology. Moreover, we celebrate a century since the first sociological field research, carried out by Dimitrie Gusti and his colleagues from the Bucharest Sociological School in the Goicea Mare village, Dolj County.

Thus, this event is a tribute to the prominent personality of Dimitrie Gusti, who contributed to the creation of Romanian sociology and promoted national culture both domestically and abroad, by developing sociological research methods and techniques, by encouraging researchers, by preserving the cultural heritage, and by establishing institutions and organizations.

The speakers of this conference represented several institutions which were either founded or managed at some point by Dimitrie Gusti, such as The National Museum of the Village, „Dimitrie Gusti”; the RADOR Press Agency, the Romanian Academy, the Research Institute for Quality of Life, but also institutions with which Dimitrie Gusti collaborated, such as the Romanian Orthodox Church.

Through the presentations and the discussions held during this conference, we emphasized Dimitrie Gusti's contribution to Romania's development. Moreover, we discussed the ways in which Dimitrie Gusti's instruments and methodology can be used to identify and solve multiple contemporary socio-economic issues, such as school dropout, the development gap between rural and urban areas, depopulation and demographic decline.