Legitimation Crisis of Capitalism in Romania: Social Dynamics and Ideologized Knowledge Production

This paper aims to investigate the discrepancy between the disaffected public perception of capitalism in Romania, as it emerges from past and current sociological survey data, and the construction of Romanian society as a social totality within mass media, the political sphere, and the social sciences. My argument is that these three spaces of knowledge production function according to ideologized criteria meant to stabilize capitalism in Romania and generate a distorted framework of understanding past and current social dynamics².