Welfare statistics. Analysing the quality of life in the 1950s Romania

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dc.creatorMĂRGINEAN, Mara
dc.date2015-12-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-21T19:39:47Z
dc.descriptionThis article unveils how a project that refined social sciences research methodologies to envision the general well-being was articulated by the Romanian state during the early 1950s. It uses as a case study the research conducted in the 1950s on family budgets. The central element of this investigation consists of contextualizing social policies based on the reconstruction of postwar Europe. It pays a particular attention, therefore, to identify differences between East and West by comparing the social welfare approaches suggested by the propagandist rhetoric, policy makers and professional authority. It aims to establish to what extent approaches to well-being during the 1950s Romania reflected ideological and professional tensions across the Iron Curtain and, on another level, if they were articulated by utopian or pragmatic goals. Equally important, it also aims to open up a discussion on the accuracy and relevance of official statistics, which is central to understanding if and how the national prestige of a state may be articulated by standardization.en-US
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dc.identifierhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbhistoria/article/view/4776
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14637/1522
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherBabeș-Bolyai University / ARGONAUT PUBLISHING Cluj-Napoca, Romaniaen-US
dc.relationhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbhistoria/article/view/4776/4490
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2015 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Historiaen-US
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en-US
dc.sourceStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Historia; Volume 60, No. 2, December 2015; 29-50en-US
dc.source2065-9598
dc.source1220-0492
dc.subjectRomania, family budgets, quantitative research, Cold War, living standards .en-US
dc.titleWelfare statistics. Analysing the quality of life in the 1950s Romaniaen-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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dc.typePeer-reviewed Articleen-US
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