During the last two censuses (and mainly during the one in 1992), the question of how the authorities interpret ethnic categories has been many times hysterically raised. More precisely the question of how they classify, how they interpret, how they group statistically such regional identities as the Székely, or such borderline identities as the Csángó. The present study summarizes the concepts and theories that arise in connection with the methods of categorization and classification used in censuses (but not only).
The author specializes in the sociology of minorities. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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The author describes the changes in the administrative division of Maros County. After presenting the legal framework of urban development, the study describes the characteristics of the urbanization process that took place after the change of regimes, the current situation of four cities established in Maros County, and it also examines the potentials for development and the eventual dysfunctions of these four cities.
Mária Erzsébet Berekméri - E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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The study focuses on the city of Kolozsvár, an important city for both the Romanian and the Hungarian elite, which is a university and a cultural center at the same time. This is the reason the historically defined competition that characterizes the relationship of the two elite groups appears as a symbolic conflict, at stake being the redistribution of the symbolic capital. The author used the techniques of mental mapping and interviews to unveil the symbolic competition for the urban space, while emphasizing its changing character.
Réka Plugor graduated from the Department of Sociology of the Babeş-Bolyai University, she is currently enrolled in the Master's program. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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The authors try to describe the direction of changes taking place both in the physical and the social space of Kolozsvár, their hypothesis being that these features are the characteristics of the future postmodern Kolozsvár. The authors argue that the conscious development
of a typical image of the city shows a process that aims to develop a Kolozsvár-brand that can be used for marketing purposes, and this process is shaped by global processes, by the pressures to be integrated in the global urban planning processes.
The authors are sociologists, Gyöngyi Pásztor – assistant lecturer at the Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Sociology, her area of research is urban sociology; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. László Péter – lecturer at the Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Sociology, his main areas of interest are: public opinion, social problems, sociology of poverty. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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