Brasov People's Fears after EU Accession. Study Carried out at the Level of Brasov Municipality

• Author: Coman, C.
• Position: Department of Social Sciences and Communication, Transilvania University of Brasov
• Pages: 41-54

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov • Vol. 5 (54) No. 1 - 2012

Series VII: Social Sciences • Law

BRASOV PEOPLE’S FEARS AFTER EU

ACCESSION. STUDY CARRIED OUT

AT THE LEVEL OF BRASOV

MUNICIPALITY

Claudiu COMAN1

Abstract: This study is part of a wider research, a compared type based

sociological survey using the questionnaire, applied in Brasov during

January 2010 and June 2010: "Effects of the EU integration perceived at the

level of Brasov commu nity and its implications on life quality and styles." By

trying to explain precisely these effects of European integration (as research

objective) it was found that, in the scientific literature, the subject of the EU

integration effort was oriented by means of the utilitarian theory (Gabel,

1998). Other international studies have also put in evidence that public

opinion on EU integration matters, is determined by economic consideration s

and personal calculations such as cost-benefit (Anderson, 1995; Eichenberg

and Dalton, 1993; Gabel, 1998). Using secondary analysis of the 2010

database and by following the proposed model of Ioan Mărginean, Iuli ana

PrecupeŃu and Ana Maria Preoteasa (2004) regarding the development of a

measurement model of the post-accession EU fears, adapted to the Brasov

realities and based on t hree dimensions (the sphere of private life, the sphere

of social life and t he relationship between the individual and the society), the

statistical analysis provides new clues upon the types, the categories and t he

attitudinal fears profiles found in Brasov and their correlation with a new

global factor - the economic crisis.

Key words: European integration, the evaluation of EU integration effects, the

liberalization of the European economic market, types of fears, cluster analysis.

1 Department of Social Sciences and Communication, Transilvania University of Braşov.

1. Previous studies

An important premise of the herein study

consists in the explorative research „Eli tes

of rural Romania about European

integration” achieved by Dumitru Sandu in

2004, by means of sharing out a free

newspaper on the issue of EU integration

(60000 copies), accompanied by an answer

coupon, by mail with paid written

confirmation (1500 respondents). I n

Brasov county, out of 4 3 communes, only

10 answered (the share of the answers

providing communes being of 23,3%). The

issues suggested for the newspaper

(answers to the question „What debate

issue would you rather have in the next

edition?) were, in fact, answers to the

more or less structured concerns of rural

population with regards to the European

integration process.