The article deals with the structure and content of the nationalist discourses during market transition in Cluj, Romania.

The manual deals with the main paradigms and models on the process of public opinion. The social processes of political opinion formation are detailed as well as the methodological aspects of public opinion polls.

The study is focused on the very specific identity building strategies of a poor rural Roma communities in the context of a rapid impoverishing process. Typical models of identity is presented in connection with the materially and symbolically dominant non-Roma out group.

After 1989 the economical structure has radically changed. A new and highly visible social stratum has appeared due to the decline of some economic sectors: the (urban) “losers” of transition. The mining and heavy industry represented one of the most problematical enterprises in Romania. That is why the former workers from those industries represent a considerable percent among the “new urban poor”. A present article is a sociological image

The present study is based on an anthropological fieldwork research in a Romanian mono-industrial small town which has undergone a quick impoverishment process due to the restructuring of the local mine. By means of interviews and participant observation techniques, I have tried to find out how extreme marginalization has produced a certain ethnicity of those living in extreme poverty whose chance to escape poverty is very low due to the structural

The book is concerning on the sociological aspects of poverty, especially on new urban poverty. Embedded in the general context of post-Fordism the issue of poverty is presented in student-friendly manner.