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Constantin Schifirneţ
Constantin Schifirneţ (born 29 august 1945, Bahna, Neamţ County, son of Maria Schifirneţ, born Movileanu, and of Neculai Schifirneţ) is a Romanian sociologist and philosopher

Profesional Life
In 1968 he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Iasi with a master's degree in Phylosophy. Between 1968 and 1990 he worked as a researcher at the Research Centre on Youth. Visiting scholar in USA, Boston University and Berkeley University (February-May 1981) He has presented papers at international scientific congresses and conferences organized in Romania, France, England, China, Denmark, Israel, Germany, Italy, Rusia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Cuba, Belgium. He is member of European Sociological Association. Doyen of Political Sciences at Dimitrie Cantemir University Between 1990 and 1994 he was General Director in Ministry of Culture. In 1980, he earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Bucharest.

Schifirneţ is Professor of Sociology at the National School of Political Sciences and Administratives of Bucharest. Award Romanian Academy Prize for work' C. Rădulescu-Motru.His Life and Activities He is specialist in sociology and anthropology of culture, Romanian philosophy and sociology, modernisation, sociology of generations, communication.

He has coordinated „Ethnos”' collection of Albatros Printing House. He has republished 30 titles'Romanian works - a lot of them for the first time since first edition. He has contributiion in modernisation and development sociology, in age and generations sociology, in the study of Romanian thinkers, especially Constantin Rădulescu-Motru). 	In the book The Forms without Substance, a Romanian Brand (2007) Schifirneţ has studied historical particularities the modern evolution of Romanians. The modernisation has begun with political institutional construction and not with the building of capitalist economy. The Romanian modernization was against boyars and social traditional structures. But a lot of traditional elements had outlived the new capitalist political-juridical organism from Romanian society. Romania is still a country which faced a late modernization; in the same time it has got many elements of modernity which fail to coagulate stable modern structures in all departments of society. We think that it is useful to analyze the Romanian modernization processes under the notion of ‘tendentious modernity’. This means the development in the opposite direction: from the affirmation of national spirit and political construction towards economical development. In Romanian society modernity is a trend, which coexists with obsolete institutional forms and ancient substance. Tendentious modernity penetrates slowly and hard through the complicated network of socio-institutional structures of the traditional and patriarchal Romanian society. It is mosaic modernity. It is no organized in a clear dominant form. Modernity is the framework and the element which supports the Romanian nation, but not by means of economical way, as a basis of a national state. Modernity is a tendency, an ideal in the construction of a nation.

Books

 * 1973 - Studentul şi societatea (The Student and Society)(coord. and author)
 * 1974 - Adolescenţii şi cultura (coauthor) (The Adolescences and Culture)
 * 1985 - Generaţie şi cultură (Generation and Culture)
 * 1987 - Tineretul între permanenţă şi înnoire (The Youth between permanence and Innovation)
 * 1991 - Lectura şi biblioteca publică (The Reading and Public Library)
 * 1993 - La lecture d'est en ouest (în colab.), Paris
 * 1996 - Civilizaţie modernă şi naţiune. Mihail Kogălniceanu, Titu Maiorescu, Mihai Eminescu (The Modern Civilization and Nation)
 * 1997 - Educaţia adulţilor în schimbare (Adult Education in Change)
 * 1999 – Sociologie (Sociology) (2th edition - 2002, 3th edition - 2004)
 * 2001 - Geneza modernă a ideii naţionale. Psihologie etnică şi identitate naţională (The Modern Genesis of National Idea. Ethnic Psychology and National Identity)
 * 2003-2005 - C. Rădulescu-Motru. Viaţa şi faptele sale, vol. I-III (C. Rădulescu-Motru.His Life and Activities, vol. I-III
 * 2007 - Formele fără fond, un brand românesc (Theory of Forms without Substance, a Romanian Brandy)