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I. Methodology
At the borders of the oriental latinity.
A neointerpretative Approach
on the lippovan community in Dobruja
rADu BAltASIu
oVIDIAnA BuluMAC
GABriEl săPuNAru
the research was conducted by students of the Master in Security
Studies and by second year Sociology undergraduate students, with the
support of the romanian Academy’s european Center for ethnic Studies
(eCeS). the field research took place between the months of August
and september in the area of the villages sarichioi – slava rusă – slava
cercheză – jurilovca pertaining to Tulcea county.
the methodology used is what we called to be the neointerpretative one,
centered on identifying the infrastructure of the investigated community,
both symbolic and objective (statistics). the instruments used were the
participative observation (observation sheet), semi structured interview,
sociological photography, village sheet. the investigated population was
comprised of the persons (personalities) with a direct role in administrating
the community (mayor, medic, engineer, school principle), the ones with
symbolic power (priest, medic, professor/tutor), with economic strength
(entrepreneurs), or simple people with access to the symbolic order of
things. Beside with the symbolic infrastructure, a series of written or
digitally recorded information regarding the objective issues (statistical
data on economy, education, culture, demography, etc.) were documented
and analyzed as well.
the neointerpretative methodology has the objective of recording