The Vicious Spiral of Economic and Cultural Crisis. Cultural Implications of Romania's Economic Collapse (2009 - 2010)

摘要

The paper examines the dynamics of cultural consumption during Romania's most dramatic period of economic crisis (2009 - 2010) in an attempt to reveal the interdependence between the two phenomena, in the sense that any decline in one of them reverberates in the other. Thus, Romania's particular case substantiates the assumption that the immediate, measurable consequences of economic crisis, such as poverty or unemployment, are doubled by a long - term impact on the population's patterns of thought and behavior, whose alteration has a boomerang effect on the economy. Ultimately, this research combines the quantitative and the qualitative perspective in order to reveal the way in which, in moments of crisis, the economic and the cultural constantly backfire on each other in a vicious spiral and have a negative impact on social evolution at large.