Author: Georgeta Rata Patricia Runcan

Patricia-Luciana Runcan currently works as a Senior Lecturer at the West University of Timişoara, Romania. She holds a BA in Sociology from the same University, a BA in Law from the “Tibiscus” University of Timişoara, and a PhD in Sociology from the West University of Timişoara. She has authored Social Work: Family and Child (2008), The Case Management Method in Child Protection (2011) and Depression in the Elderly (2013), and co-edited Risks and Opportunities in the Romanian Social Work System (2011), Applied Social Sciences: Communication Studies (2013), Applied Social Sciences: Economics and Politics (2013), Applied Social Sciences: Philosophy and Theology (2013), Applied Social Sciences: Social Work (2013) and Applied Social Sciences: Sociology (2013).Georgeta Raţă currently works as an Associate Professor at the Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Timişoara, Romania. She holds a BA in French and English and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Bucharest, Romania. Her main areas of research interest include languages, communication, and education sciences. She has co-edited Social Sciences Today: Between Theory and Practice (2010), Academic Days of Timişoara: Social Sciences Today (2011), Applied Social Sciences: Communication Studies (2013), Applied Social Sciences: Economics and Politics (2013), Applied Social Sciences: Philosophy and Theology (2013), Applied Social Sciences: Sociology (2013) and Applied Social Sciences: Social Work (2013).Alin Gavreliuc currently works as an Associate Professor at the West University of Timişoara, Romania. He holds a BA in Sociology and an MA in Political Sciences and Administration from the same university, and a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Bucharest, Romania. His main research interests are in social psychology, cross-cultural psychology and social history. He is the author of Mentality and Society: A Symbolic Identitary Maps from Contemporary Banat (2006), From Interpersonal Relationships to Social Communication (2007) and Romanians from Romania: Autarchic Individualism, Transgenerational Value Patterns and Social Autism (2011).