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Mariana BALACI CRÎNGUŞ, Cătălin BALACI
by common approved rules of community life 1 . Due to specific Roman
time life a town can form a population accordingly to demographic rules.
Method and theory
Social structure of a community can be used to obtain information
regarding the status and integration of a Roman town in a
province and also in the whole Roman Empire because it will appear
as the sum of the relatively stabile social relations founded in the social
system of the local society 2 .
Socio-anthropologically speaking social stratifications holds a
multitude of structured inequalities between different human groups 3 .
The process of individual social integration is very important
to be observed because this integration is done by socialization. This
is a psycho-social process which implies transmitting but also receiving
attitudes, values, concepts and behavioural patterns characteristic of
the implied community and the ending phase of the process is social
integration of a person 4 .
Combining different methods from connected domains of social
and humanist research we can establish the size of the population
from a Roman town or even a Roman province. For this study some
specific sociologic research methods were used even though they were
intended to be use in our time, because we can use information from
inscriptions and archaeological research.
Demography studies human population especially from the size
point of view, of their structure and other specific phenomenon. All
these aspects were analyzed both from static aspects (status at a point)
and dynamic ones (evolution, change). For us is important to use demographic
analysis as a mean to correct interpretation of data and
standard analyse of them. Historic demography along paleo-demography
is used to obtain as much information is possible of ancient life.
Sadly medieval demography along modern and contemporary ones is
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1 Rotaru 2003, 14.
2 Zamfir, Vlăsceanu 1998, 612-613.
3 Pribac 2006, 26.
4 Zamfir, Vlăsceanu 1998, 546.