IDEOLOGY, NATION AND MODERNIZATION: ROMANIAN DEVELOPMENTS IN THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS

„When considered in relation to the western sources of modern social and political thought, ideological development in the countries of the East European borderlands can be described as having consisted primarily in a dynamics of acculturation or as having been driven mainly by a thread of reactions to the pressures of modernization. As an exercise in the archeology of ideas, it has as its main objective that of bringing to light the pre-communist critical sociologies of the elites, discovered as closely connected with the sociological evaluations of the successive stages of the modernizing process and also as staying at the very core of the entire effort to come to terms with the predicament of modernization.”